Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00429:section:24:p14
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00429
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 24 (pt 14/17)
Character Range: 64570–67406

June of the same year with respect to the Contracting Party giving such notice.
   3. Withdrawal from this Convention by any Member of the Commission shall not affect its financial obligations under this Convention.

ARTICLE XXXII
   The Depositary shall notify all Contracting Parties of the following:
     (a) signatures of this Convention and the deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession;
     (b) the date of entry into force of this Convention and of any amendment thereto.

ARTICLE XXXIII
   1. This Convention, of which the English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Government of Australia which shall transmit duly certified copies thereof to all signatory and acceding Parties.
   2. This Convention shall be registered by the Depositary pursuant to Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.
     Drawn up at Canberra this twentieth day of May 1980.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, being duly authorized, have signed this Convention.
     (Here follow the signatures on behalf of the parties to the Agreement, including Australia.)

ANNEX FOR AN ARBITRAL TRIBUNAL
   1. The arbitral tribunal referred to in paragraph 3 of Article XXV shall be composed of three arbitrators who shall be appointed as follows:
     (a) The Party commencing proceedings shall communicate the name of an arbitrator to the other Party which, in turn, within a period of forty days following such notification, shall communicate the name of the second arbitrator. The Parties shall, within a period of sixty days following the appointment of the second arbitrator, appoint the third arbitrator, who shall not be a national of either Party and shall not be of the same nationality as either of the first two arbitrators. The third arbitrator shall preside over the tribunal.
     (b) If the second arbitrator has not been appointed within the prescribed period, or if the Parties have not reached agreement within the prescribed period on the appointment of the third arbitrator, that arbitrator shall be appointed, at the request of either Party, by the Secretary‑General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, from among persons of international standing not having the nationality of a State which is a Party to this Convention.
   2. The arbitral tribunal shall decide where its headquarters will be located and shall adopt its own rules of procedure.
   3. The award of the arbitral tribunal shall be made by a majority of its members, who may not abstain from voting.
   4. Any Contracting Party which is not a Party to the dispute may intervene in the proceedings with the consent of the arbitral tribunal.
   5. The award of the arbitral tribunal shall be final and binding on all Parties to the dispute and on any Party which intervenes