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A denunciation shall only affect the State which makes it, the Convention remaining 

 fully and completely operative as regards all the other States which have ratified it, or 

 which have acceded thereto or which thereafter accede thereto. 



Article 70. 



This Convention with the Regulations annexed thereto shall be drawn up in a single 

 copy which shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of Great Britain. A true 

 and certified copy shall be delivered by the latter to each of the Governments of the High 

 Contracting Parties. 



Article 71. 



This Convention shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification accompanied by 

 the schedules specified in Article 3 shall be deposited at London not later than the 31st 

 December, 1914. The British Government shall give notice of the ratifications and shall 

 furnish a copy of each schedule to the Governments of the other Contracting Parties. 



Notwithstanding failure to ratify on the part of a High Contracting Party, the Con- 

 vention shall continue to have full and complete effect as regards the Contracting Par- 

 ties which ratify it. 



Article 72. 



To render ratification easier for a Contracting State which, prior to the date of signa- 

 ture of this Convention, has laid down the requirements in regard to any matter within 

 the scope of this Convention, it is agreed that no vessel which has complied with those re- 

 quirements before the 1st July, 1915, may avail itself of the periods of grace allowed by 

 the Convention, in order to cease to comply with those requirements. 



Article Ti. / 



Where this Convention provides that a measure may be taken after agreement between 

 all or some of the Contracting States, the Government of His Britannic Majesty is invited 

 to approach the said States with a view to ascertaining whether they accept the proposals 

 made by one of these States for effecting such a measure. The Government of His Bri- 

 tannic Majesty will make known to the Contracting States the result of the inquiries which 

 it thus makes. 



A State from which observations on the proposals in question do not reach his Britan- 

 nic Majesty's Government within six months from the communication of these proposals, 

 will be presumed to acquiesce therein. 



Article 74. 



This Convention may be modified at subsequent Conferences, of which the first shall 

 be held, if necessary, in 1920. The place and time of these Conferences shall be fixed by 

 common consent by the Governments of the High Contracting Parties. 



The Governments may, through the diplomatic channel, introduce into this Conven- 

 tion, by common consent and at any time, improvements which may be judged useful or 

 necessary. 



