A./Res.123(V)
Recommendation on fixed fire extinguishing systems for special category
spaces
The Assembly,
NOTING Article 16(i) of the IMCO Convention concerning the functions of the
Assembly,
NOTING ALSO that at this session it adopted a new Part H of Chapter II of the
International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1960, in respect of fire
protection, fire detection and fire extinction in passenger ships and, in particular,
Regulation 108(c) which requires that each special category space shall be fitted with
an approved fixed fire extinguishing system which shall protest all parts of any deck
and vehicle platform, if any, in such spaces,
RECOGNIZING that the adoption of specific requirements in respect of fixed fire
extinguishing systems for the vehicle spaces of passenger ships having
drive-on/drive-off facilities might inhibit the development of new fire extinguishing
systems for use in such spaces,
HAVING CONSIDERED the Recommendation on the fixed fire extinguishing system for
special category spaces adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee at its fifteenth
session (Annex II, MSC X V/22),
RECOMMENDS THAT Contracting Governments, when approving the fixed fire extinguishing
system for special category spaces, should satisfy themselves that any such system in
at least as effective in controlling a flowing petrol fire as a fixed pressure
water-spraying system, complying with the requirements set out in the Annex to this
Resolution, Invites governments concerned:
- to put the measures recommended into effect as soon as possible and
- to inform the Secretary-General of this accordingly.