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=== 1974 version === In 1974, a completely new Convention was adopted to allow SOLAS to be amended and implemented within a reasonable timescale, instead of the previous procedure to incorporate amendments, which proved to be very slow. Under SOLAS 1960, it could take several years for amendments to come into force since countries had to give notice of acceptance to IMO and there was a minimum threshold of countries and [[tonnage]]. Under SOLAS 1974, amendments enter into force via a tacit acceptance procedure β this allows an amendment to enter into force on a specified date, unless objections to an amendment are received from an agreed number of parties. The 1974 SOLAS came into force on 25 May 1980,<ref name=IMO-Conventionstatus/> 12 months after its ratification by at least 25 countries with at least 50% of gross tonnage. It has been updated and amended on numerous occasions since then and the Convention in force today is sometimes referred to as SOLAS, 1974, as amended.<ref name="IMO-1974"/><ref name=ukpandi/> In 1975 the assembly of the IMO decided that the 1974 convention should in future use [[SI]] (metric) units only.<ref>{{cite journal |url = http://www.imo.org/blast/blastDataHelper.asp?data_id=24097&filename=351(IX).pdf |title = Resolution A.351(IX) Use of metric units in the SI system in the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, and other future instruments |journal = Assembly Resolutions |date = 12 November 1975 |access-date = 4 September 2012 |publisher = [[International Maritime Organization]] |archive-date = 28 August 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130828012541/http://www.imo.org/blast/blastDataHelper.asp?data_id=24097&filename=351(IX).pdf |url-status = dead }}</ref>
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