Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03104:schedule:1:p45
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03104
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 45/48)
Character Range: 336979–339755

instrument of ratification, acceptance or accession.

Article 14
Withdrawal
Any Contracting Party may withdraw from this Convention on 30 June of any year by giving notice on or before 1 January of the same year to the Depositary, which upon receipt of such a notice shall at once communicate it to the other Contracting Parties. Any other Contracting Party may, in like manner, within one month of the receipt of a copy of such a notice from the Depositary, give notice of withdrawal, so that the Convention shall cease to be in force on 30 June of the same year with respect to the Contracting Party giving such notice.

Article 15
Notifications by the Depositary
The Depositary shall notify all signatory and acceding States of the following:
     (a) signatures of this Convention, the deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance or accession and notices of withdrawal;
     (b) the date of entry into force of this Convention and of any amendments to it or its Annex.

Article 16
Certified Copies and Registration
(1) This Convention, done in the English, French, Russian and Spanish languages, each version being equally authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which shall transmit duly certified copies thereof to all signatory and acceding States.
(2) This Convention shall be registered by the Depositary pursuant to Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, duly authorized, have signed this Convention.
DONE at London, this 1st day of June 1972.

SCHEDULE 4—continued

ANNEX

1. Permissible Catch
The Contracting Parties shall in any one year, which shall run from 1 July to 30 June inclusive, restrict the total number of seals of each species killed or captured to the numbers specified below. These numbers are subject to review in the light of scientific assessments:
     (a) in the case of crabeater seals Lobodon carcinophagus, 175,000;
     (b) in the case of Leopard seals Hydrurgo leptonyx, 12,000;
     (c) in the case of Weddell seals Leptonychotes weddelli, 5,000.

2. Protected Species
     (a) It is forbidden to kill or capture Ross seals Ommatophoca rossi, Southern elephant seals Mirounga leonina, or fur seals of the genus Arctocephalus.
     (b) In order to protect the adult breeding stock during the period when it is most concentrated and vulnerable, it is forbidden to kill or capture any Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddelli one year old or older between 1 September and 31 January inclusive.

3. Closed Season and Sealing Season
The period between 1 March and 31 August inclusive is a Closed Season, during which the killing or capturing of seals is forbidden. The period 1 September to the last day in