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Article 20 



1. Any High Contracting Party may, at the time of signature, rati- 

 fication or accession, declare that, in accepting the present Convention, 

 he does not assume any obligations in respect of all or any of his 

 colonies, protectorates, overseas territories or territories under suze- 

 rainty or mandate ; and the present Convention shall not apply to any 

 territories named in such declaration. 



2. Any High Contracting Party may give notice to the Secretary- 

 General of the League of Nations at any time subsequently that he 

 desires that the Convention shall apply to all or any of his territories 

 which have been made the subject of a declaration under the preced- 

 ing paragraph, and the Convention shall apply to all the territories 

 named in such notice ninety days after its receipt by the Secretary- 

 General of the League of Nations. 



3. Any Pligh Contracting Party may, at any time after the expira- 

 tion of the period of three years mentioned in Article 19, declare that 

 he desires that the present Convention shall cease to apply to all or 

 any of his colonies, protectorates, overseas territories or territories 

 under suzerainty or mandate and the Convention shall cease to apply 

 to the territories named in such declaration six months after its receipt 

 by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations. 



4. The Secretary-General of the League of Nations shall communi- 

 cate to all the Members of the League of Nations and the non-member 

 States all declarations and notices received in virtue of this article and 

 the dates of their receipt. 



Article 21 



The present Convention shall be registered by the Secretary-General 

 of the League of Nations as soon as it has entered into force. 



In faith whereof the above-mentioned Plenipotentiaries have 

 signed the present Convention. 



Done at Geneva, on the twenty-fourth day of September one thous- 

 and nine hundred and thirty-one, in a single copy which shall be kept 

 in the archives of the Secretariat of the League of Nations and of which 

 certified true copies shall be delivered to all the Members of the League 

 of Nations and to the non-member States. 



And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified by the 

 Government of the United States of America and its instrument of 

 ratification was deposited with the Secretary General of the League 

 of Nations on July 7, 19321; 



And whereas the number of ratifications or accessions required 

 under Article 17 of the said convention for the entry into force thereof, 

 including, as is required, the ratifications of the Kingdom of Norway 

 and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 

 were received by the Secretary General of the League of Nations, the 

 latest, the ratification of the Government of the United Kingdom of 

 Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on October 18, 1934, and the 

 fact of the deposit of such ratifications with him was notified to the 



