The Ratification of Maritime Conventions
Chapter I.3.263
1994 AMENDMENTS TO THE 1976 CONVENTION ON THE INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SATELLITE ORGANISATION (INMARSAT)
ADOPTED: On 9 December 1994 by the INMARSAT Assembly
ENTERED INTO FORCE: Not yet in force
DEPOSITARY: IMO, London
SECRETARY: IMO, London
IMPLEMENTATION
AMENDMENTS
Article XXXIV
(1) Amendments to this Convention may be proposed by any Party. Proposed amendments shall be submitted to the Directorate, which shall inform other Parties and Signatories. Three months’ notice is required before consideration of an amendment by the Council, which shall submit its views to the Assembly within a period of six months from the date of circulation of the amendment. The Assembly shall consider the amendment not earlier than six months thereafter, taking into account any views expressed by the Council. This period may, in any particular case, be reduced by the Assembly by a substantive decision.
(2) If adopted by the Assembly, the amendment shall enter into force one hundred and twenty days after the Depositary has received notices of acceptance from two-thirds of those States which at the time of adoption by the Assembly were Parties and represented at least two-thirds of the total investment shares. Upon entry into force, the amendment shall become binding upon all Parties and Signatories, including those which have not accepted it.