SAFETY OF LIFE AT SEA C3 



NTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE SAFETY OF 

 LIFE AT SEA, 1960 

 Article I 



(a) The Contracting Governments undertake to give effect to the provisions 

 of the present Convention and of the Regulations annexed thereto, which 

 shall be deemed to constitute an integral part of the present Convention. 

 Every reference to the present Convention implies at the same time a 

 reference to these Regulations. 



(h) The Contracting Governments undertake to promulgate all laws, 

 decrees, orders and regulations and to take all other steps which may be 

 necessary to give the present Convention full and complete effect, so as to 

 ensure that, from the point of view of safety of life, a ship is fit for the serxice 

 for which it is intended. 



Article II 



The ships to which the present Convention applies are ships registered 

 in countries the Governments of which are Contracting Governments, and 

 ships registered in, 'territories to which the present Convention is extended 

 under Article XIII. 



Article III 



Laws, Regulations 



The Contracting Governments undertake to communicate to and deposit 

 with the Inter-Gervernmental Maritime Consultative Organization (hereinafter 

 called the Organization) f 



(a) a list of non-governmental agencies which are authorised to act in 



tneir behalf in the administration of measures for safety of life 

 at sea for circulation to the Contracting Governments for the 

 information of their officers; 



(b) the text of laws, decrees, orders and regulations which shall have been 



promulgated on the various matters within the scope of the present 

 Convention; 



(c) a sufficient number of specimens of their Certificates issued- under the 



provisions of the present Convention for circulation to the 

 Contracting Governments for the information of their officers. 



Article IV 



Cases of Force Majeure 



(a) No ship, which is not subject to the provisions of the present 

 Convention at the time of its departure on any voyage, shall become subject 

 to the provisions of the present Convention on account of any deviation from 

 its intended voyage due to stress of weather or any other cause of force 

 majeure. 



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