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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND JULY, 1887.
ARTICLE XVII.
The stipulations of the present Treaty shall be applicable, as far as the laws permit, to all the Colonies and foreign possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, excepting to those hereinafter named, that is to say, except to-
India.
The Dominion of Canada.
Newfoundland.
The Cape.
Natal.
New South Wales.
Victoria. Queensland. Tasmania.
South Australia. Western Australia. New Zealand.
Provided always, that the stipulations of the present Treaty shall be made applicable to any of the above-named Colonies or foreign possessions on whose behalf notice to that effect shall have been given by Her Britannic Majesty's Representative at the Court of Greece to the Hellenic Minister for Foreign Affairs, within one year from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty.
ARTICLE XVIII.
The present Treaty shall apply to any countries or territories which may hereafter unite in a Customs union with one or other of the High Contracting Parties.
ARTICLE XIX.
The present Treaty shall come into force on the exchange of the ratifications, and shall remain in force for ten years, and thereafter until the expiration of a year from the day in which one or other of the Contracting Parties shall have repudiated it.
Each of the Contracting Parties reserves, however, the right of causing it to terminate upon 12 months' notice being given previously.
It is understood that the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation concluded between Great Britain and Greece on the 4th October, 1837, is abrogated by the present Treaty.
ARTICLE XX.
The present Treaty shall be ratified by the two Contracting Parties, and the ratifications thereof. shall be exchanged at Athens as soon as possible.
In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries of the Contracting Parties have signed the present Treaty in duplicate, in the English and Greek languages, and thereto affixed their respective seals.
Done in Athens, this 10th day of November, in the year 1886.
(L.S.) (L.S.)
HORACE RUMBOLD.
S. DRAGOUMI.
Protocol.
AT the moment of proceeding this day to the signature of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Greece, the Plenipotentiaries of the two High Contracting Parties have declared as follow:-
Any controversies which may arise respecting the interpretation or the execution of the present Treaty, or the consequences of any violation thereof, shall be submitted, when the means of settling them directly by amicable agreement are exhausted, to the decision of Commissions of Arbitration, and that the result of such arbitration shall be binding upon both Governments.
The members of such Commissions shall be selected by the two Governments by common consent, failing which each of the Parties shall nominate an Arbitrator, or an equal number of Arbitrators, and the Arbitrators thus appointed shall select an Umpire.
The procedure of the arbitration shall in each case be determined by the Contracting Parties, failing which the Commission of Arbitration shall be itself entitled to determine it beforehand.
The undersigned Plenipotentiaries have agreed that this Protocol shall be submitted to the two High Contracting Parties at the same time as the Treaty and that when the Treaty is ratified, the agreements cotained in the Protocol shall also equally be considered as approved, without the neces- sity of a further formal ratification.
In faith whereof, the two Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Protocol, and thereto affixed their respective seals.
Done in Athens, this 10th day of November, in the year 1886.
(L.S.)
HORACE RUMBOLD.
(L.S.)
S. DRAGOUMI.