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UNCLP

UNCLP  
UN Limitation Convention (1974)

  1. Other provisions of the Convention deal with implementation of the Convention in States having two or more territorial units where different legal systems exist. A series of provisions deals with declarations and reservations permitted under the Convention and with procedures for making and withdrawing them. The permitted declarations and reservations have been mentioned above; no others may be made under the Convention.
  2. The final clauses contain the usual provisions relating to the Secretary-General of the United Nations as depositary of the Convention. The Convention is subject to ratification by States that signed it before 31 December 1975 and for accession by States that did not do so. The Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts of the Convention are equally authentic.3
  3. The Secretary-General of the United Nations is also the depositary of the 1980 Protocol amending the Convention, which is open for accession by all States. Since the Protocol had already received the necessary number of accessions, the Convention as amended by the Protocol entered into force on the same date as the unamended Convention on 1 August 1988.
  4. A State that ratifies or accedes to the Convention after the Convention and Protocol come into force will become a party to the unamended Convention as well unless it notifies the depositary to the contrary. The Convention as amended will enter into force for that State on the first day of the month following the expiration of 6 months after the date of deposit of its instrument of ratification or accession. Accession to the Protocol by a State that is not a Contracting Party to the Convention constitutes accession to the Convention as amended by the Protocol.

3 The authentic Arabic text was adopted in 1992 as communicated by depositary notificationC.N.470.1992.TREATIES-5 of 2 June 1993.
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