Article IV - Signature, ratification, acceptance, approval and accession
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Article IV - Signature, ratification, acceptance, approval and accession

  1 The present Protocol shall be open for signature at the Headquarters of the Organization from 1 March 1989 to 28 February 1990 and shall thereafter remain open for accession. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, States may express their consent to be bound by the present Protocol by:

  • (a) signature without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval; or

  • (b) signature subject to ratification, acceptance or approval, followed by ratification, acceptance or approval; or

  • (c) accession.

  2 Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument to that effect with the Secretary-General of the Organization.

  3 The present Protocol may be signed without reservation, ratified, accepted, approved or acceded to only by States which have signed without reservation, accepted or acceded to the Convention.

Parent topic: Articles of the Protocol of 1988 relating to the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966
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