Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2019C00190:schedule:2:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2019C00190
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 2 (pt 3/5)
Character Range: 76206–79000

accepted, approved or acceded to the Convention referred to in Article II.

ARTICLE V

1. Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be effected by the deposit of a formal instrument to that effect with the Secretary‑General of the Organization.

2. Any instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession deposited after the entry into force of an amendment to the present Protocol with respect to all existing Parties or after the completion of all measures required for the entry into force of the amendment with respect to all existing Parties shall be deemed to apply to the Protocol as modified by the amendment.

ARTICLE VI

1. The present Protocol shall enter into force on the ninetieth day following the date on which fifteen States have deposited instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession with the Secretary‑General of the Organization, provided however that the present Protocol shall not enter into force before the Convention referred to in Article II has entered into force.

2. For each State which subsequently ratifies, accepts, approves or accedes to it, the present Protocol shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after the deposit by such State of the appropriate instrument.

ARTICLE VII

1. The present Protocol may be denounced by any Party at any time after the date on which the Protocol enters into force for that Party.

2. Denunciation shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument to that effect with the Secretary‑General of the Organization.

3. Denunciation shall take effect one year, or such longer period as may be specified in the instrument of denunciation, after its deposit with the Secretary‑General of the Organization.

4. Denunciation of the Convention referred to in Article II by a Party shall be deemed to be a denunciation of the present Protocol by that Party. Such denunciation shall take effect on the same day as the denunciation of the Convention takes effect in accordance with paragraph 3 of Article XII of that Convention.

ARTICLE VIII

1. A conference for the purpose of revising or amending the present Protocol may be convened by the Organization.

2. The Organization shall convene a conference of Parties to the present Protocol for the purpose of revising or amending it at the request of not less than one‑third of the Parties.

ARTICLE IX

1. The present Protocol 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 the present Protocol or acceded thereto of:
 (i) each new signature or deposit of an instrument together with the date thereof;
 (ii) the date of entry into force of the present Protocol;
 (iii) the deposit of any instrument of denunciation of