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If recognition of a trust is prevented by application of the preceding paragraph, the court shall try to give effect to the objects of the trust by ot
means.
ARTICLE 16
The Convention does not prevent the application of those provisions of the law of the forum which must be applied even to international situations, irrespective of rules of conflict of laws.
If another State has a sufficiently close connection with a case then, in exceptional circumstances, effect may also be given to rules of that State which have the same character as mentioned in the preceding paragraph.
Any Contracting State may, by way of reservation, declare that it will not apply the second paragraph of this article.
ARTICLE 17
In the Convention the word 'law' means the rules of law in force in a State other than its rules of conflict of laws.
ARTICLE 18
The provisions of the Convention may be disregarded when their appli- cation would be manifestly incompatible with public policy (ordre public).
ARTICLE 19
Nothing in the Convention shall prejudice the powers of States in fiscal
matters.
ARTICLE. 20
Any Contracting State may, at any time, declare that the provisions of the Convention will be extended to trusts declared by judicial decisions.
This declaration shall be notified to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and will come into effect on the day when this notification is received.
Article 31 is applicable to the withdrawal of this declaration in the same way as it applies to a denunciation of the Convention.
ARTICLE 21
Any Contracting State may reserve the right to apply the provisions of Chapter III only to trusts the validity of which is governed by the law of a Contracting State.
ARTICLE 22
The Convention applies to trusts regardless of the date on which they were created.
However, a Contracting State may reserve the right not to apply the Convention to trusts created before the date on which, in relation to that State, the Convention enters into force.
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