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 2252 INTERNATIONAL LOAD LINE CONVENTION. JULY 5,1930. GENERAL PBOVI' I:!lON8. EQui ... alenl$. CHAPTER IV.- GENERAL PROVISIONS. ARTICLE 18. Eq:uivalent8. Where in this Convention it is provided that a particular fitting, or appliance, or type thereof, shall be fitted or carried in a ship, or that any particular arrangement shall be adopted, any Administra- tion may accept in substitution therefor any other fitting, or appliance, or type thereof, or any other arrangement, provided that such Admin- istration shall have been satisfied that the fitting, or appliance, or type thereof, or the arrangement substituted is in the circumstances at least as effective as that specified in this Convention. Any Administration which so accepts a new fitting, or appliance, or type thereof, or new arrangement shall communicate the fact to t.he other Administrations, and, upon request, the particulars thereof. ARTICLE 19. Laws, Regulations, Report8. L 1tl The Contracting Governments undertake to communicate to each aws, regu 1\ ons, ere. other-- (1) the text of laws, decrees, regulations and decisions of general application which shall have been promulgated on the various matters within the scope of this Convention; (2) all available official reports or official summaries of reports in so far as they show the results of the provisions of this Convention, provided always that such reports or sum- maries are not of a confidential nature. asTarmstroBot (talk)3nment The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is invited to serve as an intermediary for collecting all this information and for bringing it to the knowledge of the other Contracting Governments. Modi1loatloDB, etc. ARTICLE 20. Modifications, Future Oonferences. 1. Modifications of this Convention which may be deemed useful or necessary improvements may at any time be proposed by any Contracting Government to the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and such proposals shall be communicated by the latter to all the other Contracting Govern- ments, and if any such modifications are accepted by all the