ADOPTED: Done at London, 25 May 1984

REFERENCE: FUND PROT, 1984

ENTERED INTO FORCE: Not yet in force

DEPOSITARY: IMO, London

SECRETARY: IMO, London

IMPLEMENTATION

SIGNATURE, RATIFICATION, ACCEPTANCE, APPROVAL, ACCESSION

Article XXVIII

1. This Protocol shall be open for signature at London from 1 December 1984 to 30 November 1985 by any State which has signed the 1984 Liability Convention.

2. Subject to paragraph 4, this Protocol shall be ratified, accepted or approved by States which have signed it.

3. Subject to paragraph 4, this Protocol is open for accession by States which did not sign it.

4. This Protocol may be ratified, accepted, approved or acceded to, only by States which have ratified, accepted, approved or acceded to the 1984 Liability Convention.

5. Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be effected by the deposit of a formal instrument to that effect with the Secretary-General of the Organisation.

6. A State which is a Party to this Protocol but is not a Party to the 1971 Fund Convention shall be bound by the provisions of the 1971 Fund Convention as amended by this Protocol in relation to other Parties hereto, but shall not be bound by the provisions of the 1971 Fund Convention in relation to Parties thereto.

7. Any instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession deposited after the entry into force of an amendment to the 1971 Fund Convention as amended by this Protocol shall be deemed to apply to the Convention so amended, as modified by such amendment.

ENTRY INTO FORCE

Article XXX

1. This Protocol shall enter into force twelve months following the date on which the following requirements are fulfilled: