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Article 24.
The present Convention is subject to ratification. The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, who shall notify their receipt to the Members of the League which are signatories of the Convention and to the other signatory States.
Article 25.
After October 31st, 1924, the present Convention may be acceded to by any State represented at the Conference referred to in Article 23 which has not signed the Convention, by any Member of the League of Nations, or by any State to which the Council of the League of Nations shall have communicated a copy of the Convention for this purpose.
Accession shall be effected by an instrument communicated to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations to be deposited in the archives of the Secretariat. The Secretary-General shall at once notify such deposit to all the Members of the League of Nations signatories of the Convention and to the other signatory States.
Article 26.
The present Convention will not come into force until it has been ratified by five Powers- The date of its coming into force shall be the ninetieth day after the receipt by the Secretary, General of the League Nations of the fifth ratification. Thereafter, the present Convention will take effect in the case of each Party ninety days after the receipt of its ratification or of the notifi- cation of its accession.
In compliance with the provisions of Article 18 of the Covenant of the League of Nations. the Secretary-General will register the present Convention upon the day of its coming into force.
Article 27.
A special record shall be kept by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations showing which of the Parties have signed, ratified, acceded to or denounced the present Convention. This record shall be open to the Members of the League at all times; it shall be published as often as possible, in accordance with the directions of the Council.
Article 28.
The present Convention may be denounced by an instrument in writing addressed to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations. The denunciation shall become effective one year after the date of the receipt of the instrument of denunciation by the Secretary-General, and shall operate only in respect of the Member of the League of Nations or State which makes it.
The Secretary-General of the League of Nations shall notify the receipt of any such denun- ciations to all the Members of the League of Nations signatories of or adherents to the Convention and to the other signatory or adherent States.
Article 29.
Any State signing or adhering to the present Convention may declare, at the moment either of its signature, ratification or accession, that its acceptance of the present Convention does not include any or all of its colonies, overseas possessions, protectorates, or overseas territories under its sovereignty or authority and may subsequently adhere, in conformity with the provisions of Article 25, on behalf of any such colony, overseas possession, protectorate or territory excluded by
such declaration.
Denunciation may also be made separately in respect of any such colony, overseas possession, protectorate or territory, and the provisions of Article 28 shall apply to any such denunciation.
Article 30.
The Council of the League of Nations is requested to consider the desirability of summoning a Conference for the purpose of revising the present Convention if requested by one-third of the Contracting States.
This is to certify that this is a true copy of a page of a document kept in the Archives of the League of Nations (in box COL 243, file 5).
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Geneva, 13 June, 1990.
don Welder
Sven Welander,
Chief, League of Nations Archives
& Historical Collections Unit