The Lifesaving Appliances (Code of Practice for Existing Ships of Class VII) Notice 1989, Amendment No. 1 Pursuant to section 235 of the Shipping and Seamen Act 1952, the Minister of Transport hereby gives the following notice. N o t i c e 1. Title and commencement (1) This notice may be cited as the Lifesaving Appliances (Code of Practice for Existing Ships of Class VII) Notice 1989, Amendment No. 1 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Lifesaving Appliances (Code of Practice for Existing Ships of Class VII) Notice 1989 (hereinafter referred to as the principal notice). (2) This notice shall come into force on the 1st day of May 1994. 2. Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacons The Schedule to the principal notice is hereby amended by deleting clause 16 and substituting the following clause: ``16. Radar Transponders (1) Every ship of Class VII, of 500 gross tonnage and upwards, to which this Code of Practice applies shall carry on each side of the ship or in each survival craft, at least 1 radar transponder which shall conform to the performance standards published by the International Maritime Organisation Assembly Resolution A. 697 (17) or to those standards which may be prescribed by the Minister by notice in the New Zealand Gazette. (2) Every ship of Class VII, of 300 gross tonnage and upwards but less than 500 gross tonnage, to which this Code of Practice applies shall carry at least 1 radar transponder which shall conform to the performance standards published by the International Maritime Organisation Assembly Resolution A. 605 (15) or to those standards which may be prescribed by the Minister by notice in the New Zealand Gazette. (3) A radar transponder required to be carried under subclause (1) or subclause (2) of this clause, shall be stowed in a survival craft or in such a location that it can be rapidly placed in a survival craft. (4) One of the transponders required to be carried under subclause (1) or the transponder required to be carried under subclause (2), may be the transponder required by regulation 7 (1) (c) of the Shipping (Radio) Regulations 1994. (5) Every ship of Class VII to which this Code of Practice applies, shall comply with the requirements of this clause no later than 1 February 1995.'' 3. Two-way radiotelephone sets (1) The Schedule to the principal notice is hereby amended by inserting, after clause 10, the following clause: ``(10a) Two way radiotelephone sets Every ship of Class VII, of 500 gross tonnage and upwards, to which this Code of Practice applies shall carry at least 3 two-way VHF radiotelephone apparatus which shall conform to the performance standards published by the International Maritime Organisation Assembly Resolution A. 605 (15) or to those standards which may be prescribed by the Minister by notice in the New Zealand Gazette. (2) Every ship of Class VII, of 300 gross tonnage and upwards but less than 500 gross tonnage, to which this Code of Practice applies shall carry at least 2 two-way VHF radiotelephone apparatus which shall conform to the performance standards published by the International Maritime Organisation Assembly Resolution A. 605 (15) or to those standards which may be prescribed by the Minister by notice in the New Zealand Gazette. (3) Any fixed two-way VHF radiotelephone apparatus fitted in a survival craft shall conform to the performance standards published by the International Maritime Organisation Assembly Resolution A. 605 (15) or to those standards which may be prescribed by the Minister by notice in the New Zealand Gazette. (4) Two-way VHF radiotelephone apparatus carried on ships of Class VII to which this Code of Practice applies, and not complying fully with the performance standards set out in this clause, shall be deemed to have complied with these standards until 1 February 1999, provided that such apparatus is compatible with two-way radiotelephone apparatus which complies with the standards published by the International Maritime Organisation Assembly Resolution A. 605 (15).'' Dated at Wellington this 24th day of March 1994. MAURICE WILLIAMSON, Minister of Transport.