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Of particular relevance, and dealt with in the following chapters, are the
following conventions:

International Convention on Tonnage Measurement, 1969
International Convention on Load Lines of Ships, 1966
International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974

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The latter, and its subsequent amendments and protocols, includes
requirements in respect of fire protection in ships which are dealt with in
Chapter 32.
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The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships
(MARPOL) 1973 and its Protocol of 1978 also prescribe ship construction
requirements, particularly in respect of tankers (see Chapter 22).
A significant recent development in the work of IMO was the adoption
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by the 23 Assembly in 2003 of a resolution that IMO establish goal-based
standards for the design and construction of ships. That is IMO will in due
course set the goals that have to be achieved in respect of ship safety and
marine pollution prevention and national regulators and/or classification
societies will have to develop technical rules and standards that can achieve
those goals. The intention being that IMO should play a larger role in
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determining the fundamental standards to which new ships are built. It is
not intended that IMO would take over the detailed rule making of the classifi-
cation societies, but IMO would state what goals have to be achieved, leaving
the classification societies, designers and builders to determine how the
required goals can be best met.

Relationship with National Authorities
Member countries have their own governmental agency concerned with
maritime safety which drafts and enforces the shipping legislation of that
country. The conventions and amendments are ratified by the member
country when they are incorporated in that country’s national legislation
relating to ships registered in that country and which make international
voyages. A national authority also has responsibility for ensuring that ships
which are not registered in that country, but visiting its ports, are complying
with the provisions of the conventions in force and to which they are party.
The conventions require ships which are trading internationally to have
current convention certificates issued by, or on behalf of, the governmental
agency of the country in which they are registered. In the case of SOLAS
these consist of:

(a) For passenger ships a certificate called a Passenger Ship Safety
Certificate valid for not more than one year.