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Article 45 



1. A Conference for the i)ur|)osc of revising or amending this Con- 

 vention may be convened by the Organization. 



2. The Organi/-ation shall convene a Conference of the Contracting 

 States for the ])urpose of revising or amending this Convention at the 

 request of not less than one-third of all Contracting States. 



Article 46 



1. This Convention shall be deposited with the Secretary- General 

 of the Organization. 



2. The Secretary-General of the Organization shall: 



(a) inform all States which have signed or acceded to this 

 Convention of: 



(i) each new signature or deposit of instrument and the 

 date thereof; 



(ii) the date of entr}' hi to force of the Convention; 



(iii) an}" denunciation of the Convention and the date on 

 which it takes cITect; 



(b) transmit certified true copies of this Convention to all 

 Signatory States and to all States which accede to the Convention. 



Article 47 



As soon as this Convention enters into force, a certified lru{^ copy 

 thereof shall be transmitted by the Secretary-General of the Organizn- 

 tion to the Secretariat of the United Nations for registration and 

 publication in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the 

 United Nations. 



Article 48 



This Convention is established in a single original in the Enghsh 

 and French languages, both texts being equally authentic. Official 

 translations in the RiissiaTi and Spanish lan2:uages shall be prepared 

 by the Secretariat of the Organization and deposited with the signed 

 original. 



IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned plenii)otentiaries being 

 duly authorized for that i)urpose have signed the present Convention. 



DONE at Brussels this eighteenth day of December one thousand 

 nine hundred and seventy-one. 



Certified true co]\y of the International Convention on the Estab- 

 lishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution 

 Damage, 1971, done at Brussels on 18 December 1971, the original of 

 which is deposited with the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consulta- 

 tive Organization. 



Thomas S. Fisher, 

 (For the Secretary- General of the Inter-Governmental 



Maritime Consultative Organization.) 

 London, 14 March 1972. 



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