ADOPTED: Done at Brussels, 28 September 1938

ENTERED INTO FORCE: Not yet in force

DEPOSITARY: Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

SECRETARY: Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

IMPLEMENTATION

SIGNATURE, RATIFICATION AND ACCESSION

Article XIX

(1) This Convention shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification shall be deposited in the archives of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs which shall notify all signatory and acceding Governments of the deposit of any such instrument.

Article XX

(1) This Convention shall be open for accession after the date of entry into force.

(2) The accession of any State shall be notified to the Belgian Government which shall inform all the High Contracting Parties of such notifications.

(3) The Convention shall come into force in respect of the acceding State ninety days after the date of the receipt of such notification by the Belgian Government.

DENUNCIATION

Article XXI

(1) Any of the High Contracting Parties may denounce this Convention by a notification made to the Belgian Government which shall inform all other High Contracting Parties of such notifications.

(2) The denunciation shall take effect six months after the date of the notification and only in respect of that denouncing party.

TERRITORIAL APPLICATION

Article XXII

(1) Any High Contracting Party may at the time of signature, ratification or accession declare that their acceptance of the present Convention does not include any or all of the colonies, protectorates, overseas possessions, territories under mandate or any other territory under their sovereignty, authority or suzerainty.

(2) Any High Contracting Party may subsequently notify the Belgian Government that the present Convention shall extend to any or all of the colonies, protectorates, overseas possessions, territories under mandate or any other territory under their sovereignty, authority or suzerainty excluded in their original declaration.

(3) They may denounce this Convention in respect of any or all of the colonies, protectorates, overseas possessions, territories under mandate or any other territory under their sovereignty, authority or suzerainty, by notification to the Belgian Government.

(4) The Belgian Government shall inform each Contracting Party of any notifications made under the preceding two paragraphs.