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by the Maritime Safety Committee at its nineteenth session in accord- 

 ance with Article XVI of that Convention with a view to preventing 

 and controlling deliberate pollution of the sea by oil, 

 _ Recalling Resolution 1 of the International Conference on Preven- 

 tion of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1962, concerning the complete 

 avoidance, as soon as practicable, of the discharge of persistent oils 

 into the sea and considering that the amendments to the Convention, 

 as recommended by the Maritime Safety Committee, will enable sig- 

 nificant progress to be made towards the ultimate achievement of 

 complete avoidance of discharge, 



Adopts the following Amendments to the Articles and the Annexes 

 to the Convention the texts of which are attached to this Resolution : 



(a) The replacement of paragraph (1) of Article I by a new 

 paragraph ; 



(h) the replacement of Article III, by a new Article; 



(c) the deletion of paragraph (c) of Article IV ; 



( d) the replacement of Article V by a new Article ; 



(e) the replacement of Article VII by a new Article ; 



(/) the replacement of paragraphs (1) and (2) of Article IX 

 by new paragraphs ; 



(g) the replacement of paragraph (2) of Article X by a new 

 paragraph ; 



( h) the deletion of Annex A ; 

 (i) the replacement of Annex B by a new Annex ; 

 Requests the Secretary-General of the Organization, in conformity 

 with Article XVI (2) (a), to communicate, for consideration and ac- 

 ceptance, certified copies of this Resolution and its attachment, to all 

 Contracting Governments to the International Convention for the 

 Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954, together with copies 

 to all Members of the Organization, and 



Invites all Governments concerned to accept the Amendments at 

 the earliest possible date. 



Article I 



The existing text of paragraph (1) is replaced by the following: 



(1) For the purposes of the present Convention, the following ex- 

 pressions shall (unless the context otherwise requires) have the mean- 

 ings hereby respectively assigned to them that is to say : 



'The Bureau' has the meaning assigned to it by article X;_ 



'Discharge' in relation to oil or to oily mixture means any discharge 

 or escape howsoever caused ; 



'Heavy diesel oil' means diesel oil, other than those distillates of 

 which more than 50 per cent by volume distills at a temperature not 

 exceeding 340°C. when tested by A.S.T.M. Standard Method D.86/59 ; 



'Instantaneous Tate of discharge of oil content' means the rate of 

 discharge of oil in litres per hour at any instant divided by the speed 

 of the ship in knots at the same instant ; 



'Mile' means a nautical mile of 6,080 feet or 1,852 metres ; 



'Nearest land'. The term 'from the nearest land' means 'from the 

 base-line from which the territorial sea of the territory in question 



