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PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW COMPENDIUM VOLUME II

from the date on which the Convention has been so

extended to any territory, may by a notification in writing

given

to

the

Organization

declare that the present

Convention shall cease to extend to any such territory

named in the notification,

(ii) The present Convention shall cease to extend to any

territory mentioned in such notification one year, or such

longer period as may be specified therein, after the date

of receipt of the notification by the Organization

(c) The Organization shall inform all the Contracting

Governments of the extension of the present Convention

to any territories under paragraph (a) of this Article, and of

the

termination

of

any

such

extension

under

the

provision of paragraph (b), stating in each case the date

from which the present Convention has been or will

cease to be so extended.

ARTICLE XIV

Registration

(a) The present Convention shall be deposited in the

archives of the Organization and the Secretary-General of

the

Organization shall transmit certified true copies

thereof to all Signatory Governments and to all other

Governments which accept the present Convention.

(b) As soon as the present Convention comes into force it

shall

be

registered

by

the

Organization

with

the

Secretary-General of the United Nations.

IN

WITNESS

WHEREOF

the

undersigned

Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention.

DONE in London this seventeenth day of June, 1960, in a

single copy in English and French, each text being equally

authoritative.

The

original

texts

will

be

deposited

with

the

Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization,

together with texts in the Russian and Spanish languages

which will be translations.

(International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea

(SOLAS), [June 17, 1960])

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