Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00518:section:39:p34
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00518
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 39 (pt 34/40)
Character Range: 127626–130967

The Registrar shall also, by means of a special and direct communication, notify any state entitled to appear before the Court or international organization considered by the Court, or, should it not be sitting, by the President, as likely to be able to furnish information on the question, that the Court will be prepared to receive, within a time limit to be fixed by the President, written statements, or to hear, at a public sitting to be held for the purpose, oral statements relating to the question.

3. Should any such state entitled to appear before the Court have failed to receive the special communication referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article, such state may express a desire to submit a written statement or to be heard; and the Court will decide.

4. States and organizations having presented written or oral statements or both shall be permitted to comment on the statements made by other states or organizations in the form, to the extent, and within the time limits which the Court, or, should it not be sitting, the President, shall decide in each particular case. Accordingly, the Registrar shall in due time communicate any such written statements to states and organizations having submitted similar statements.

Article 67

The Court shall deliver its advisory opinions in open court, notice having been given to the Secretary‑General and to the representatives of Members of the United Nations, of other states and of international organizations immediately concerned.

Article 68

In the exercise of its advisory functions the Court shall further be guided by the provisions of the present Statute which apply in contentious cases to the extent to which it recognizes them to be applicable.

Article 69

Amendments to the present Statute shall be effected by the same procedure as is provided by the Charter of the United Nations for amendments to that Charter, subject however to any provisions which the General Assembly upon recommendation of the Security Council may adopt concerning the participation of states which are parties to the present Statute but are not Members of the United Nations.

CHAPTER V

AMENDMENT

Article 70

The Court shall have power to propose such amendments to the present Statute as it may deem necessary, through written communications to the Secretary‑General, for consideration in conformity with the provisions of Article 69.

[Here followed signatures of Representatives of the following nations:—
Argentine                                Ethiopia     Paraguay
Australia                                France       Peru
Belgium                                  Greece       Philippine Commonwealth
Bolivia                                  Guatemala
Brazil                                   Haiti        Saudi Arabia
Byelo‑Russian Soviet Socialist Republic  Honduras     Syria
                                         India        Turkey
Canada                                   Iran         Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Chile                                    Iraq
China                                    Lebanon      Union of South Africa
Colombia                                 Liberia      Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Costa Rica                               Luxembourg
Cuba                                     Mexico       United Kingdom
Czechoslovakia