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The present Agreement applies only to the Far Eastern possessions or territories of the Contracting Powers, including leased or protected territories, in which the 18� of prepared opium is temporarily authorised.
At the moment of ratification any Contracting Power
may declare that its acceptance of the Agreement does not include any territory over which it exercises only a protectorate and may accede subsequently in respect of any protectorate thus excluded by means of a notification of accession deposited with the Secretary-General of the Langue of Nations who shall forthwith motify the accession to all the other Contracting
Powere.