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may be specified therein, after the date of receipt of the notification by 

 the Bureau. 



(3) The Bureau shall inform all Contracting Governments of the 

 extension of the Convention to any territories under paragraph (1) 

 of this Article, and of the termination of any such extension under 

 paragraph (2) of this Article, stating m each case the date from 

 which the Convention has been, or will cease to be, so extended. 



Article XIX 



(1) In case of war or other hostilities, a Contracting Government 

 which considers that it is affected, whether as a belligerent or as a 

 neutral, may suspend the operation of the whole or any part of the 

 present Convention in respect of all or any of its territories. The 

 suspending Government shall immediately give notice of any such 

 suspension to the Bureau. 



(2) The suspending Government may at any time terminate such 

 suspension and shall m any event terminate it as soon as it ceases to 

 be justified under paragi-aph (1) of this Article. Notice of such ter- 

 mination shall be given immediately to the Bureau by the Government 

 concerned. 



(3) The Bureau shall notif}^ all Contracting Governments of any 

 suspension or termination of suspension under this Article. 



Article XX 



As soon as the present Convention comes into force it shall be 

 registered by the Bureau with the Secretary-General of the United 

 Nations. 



Article XXI 



The duties of the Bureau shall be carried out by the Government 

 of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland unless 

 and until the Inter- Governmental Maritime Consultive Organisation 

 comes into being and takes over the duties assigned to it under the 

 Convention signed at Geneva on the 6th day of March, 1948, [^] and 

 thereafter the duties of the Bureau shall be carried out by the said 

 Organisation. 



In witness whereof the undersigned plenipotentiaries have signed 

 the present Convention. 



Done in London this twelfth day of May, 1954, in English and 

 French, both texts being equally autnoritative, in a single copy, which 

 shall be deposited with the Bureau and of which the Bureau shall 

 transmit certified copies to all signatory and Contracting Govern- 

 ments. 



1 TIAS 4044 ; 9 UST 621. 



