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修正1971年设立国际油污损害赔偿基金国际公约的1984年议定书(二)

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n accepted in accordance withparagraph 7 shall enter into force eighteen months after its acceptance.

  9. All Contracting States shall be bound by the amendment, unless theydenounce this Protocol in accordance with Article 34, paragraphs 1 and 2,at least six months before the amendment enters into force. Suchdenunciation shall take effect when the amendment enters into force.

  10. When an amendment has been adopted by the Committee but theeighteen-month period for its acceptance has not yet expired, a Statewhich becomes a Contracting State during that period shall be bound by theamendment if it enters into force. A State which becomes a ContractingState after that period shall be bound by an amendment which has beenaccepted in accordance with paragraph 7. In the cases referred to in thisparagraph a State becomes bound by an amendment when that amendment entersinto force, or when this Protocol enters into force for that State, iflater.Article 34

  Denunciation

  1. This Protocol may be denounced by any Party at any time after thedate on which it enters into force for that Party.

  2. Denunciation shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument withthe Secretary-General of the Organization.

  3. A denunciation shall take effect twelve months, or such longerperiod as may be specified in the instrument of denunciation, after itsdeposit with the Secretary-General of the Organization.

  4. Denunciation of the 1984 Liability Convention shall be deemed to bea denunciation of this Protocol. Such denunciation shall take effect onthe date on which denunciation of the Protocol of 1984 to the 1969Liability Convention takes effect according to Article 16 of thatProtocol.

  5. Any Contracting State to this Protocol which has not denounced the1971 Fund Convention and the 1969 Liability Convention as required byArticle 31 shall be deemed to have denounced this Protocol with effecttwelve months after the expiry of the six month period in that Article. Asfrom the date on which the denunciations provided for in Article 31 takeeffect, any Party to this Protocol which deposits an instrum

ent ofratification, acceptance, approval or accession to the 1969 LiabilityConvention shall be deemed to have denounced this Protocol with effectfrom the date on which such instrument takes effect.

  6. As between the Parties to this Protocol, denunciation by any ofthem of the 1971 Fund Convention in accordance with Article 41 thereofshall not be construed in any way as a denunciation of the 1971 FundConvention as amended by this Protocol.

  7. Notwithstanding a denunciation of this Protocol by a Party pursuantto this Article, any provisions of this Protocol relating to theobligations to make contributions under Article 10 of the 1971 FundConvention as amended by this Protocol with respect to an incidentreferred to in Article 12, paragraph 2(b), of that amended Convention andoccurring before the denunciation takes effect shall continue to apply.Article 35

  Extraordinary sessions of the Assembly

  1. Any Contracting State may, within ninety days after the deposit ofan instrument of denunciation the result of which it considers willsignificantly increase the level of contributions for the remainingContracting States, request the Director to convene an extraordinarysession of the Assembly. The Director shall convene an extraordinarysession of the Assembly. The Director shall convene the Assembly to meetnot later than sixty days after receipt of the request.

  2. The Director may convene, on his own initiative, an extraordinarysession of the Assembly to meet within sixty days after the deposit of anyinstrument of denunciation, if he considers that such denunciation willresult in a significant increase in the level of contributions of theremaining Contracting States.

  3. If the Assembly at an extraordinary session convened in accordancewith paragraph 1 or 2 decides that the denunciation will result in asignificant increase in the level of contributions for the remainingContracting States, any such State may, not later than one hundred andtwenty days before the date on which the denunciation takes effect,denounce this Protocol with effect from the same date.Article 36

  Cessation

  1. Any Protocol shall cease to be in force on the date when the numberof Contracting States falls below three.

  2. States which are bound by this Protocol on the day before the dateit ceases to be in force shall enable the Fund to exercise its functionsas described under Article 37 of this Protocol and shall, for that purposeonly, remain bound by this Protocol.Article 37

  Winding up of the Fund

  1. If this Protocol ceases to be in force, the Fund shallnevertheless:

  (a) meet its obligations in respect of any incident occurringbefore the Protocol ceased to be in force;

  (b) be entitled to exercise its rights to contributions to theextent that these contributions are necessary to meet the obligationsunder subparagraph (a), including expenses for the administration of theFund necessary for this purpose.

  2. The Assembly shall take all appropriate measures to complete thewinding up of the Fund including the distribution in an equitable mannerof any remaining assets among those persons who have contributed to theFund.

  3. For the purposes of this Article the Fund shall remain a legalperson.Article 38

  Depositary

  1. This Protocol and any amendments accepted under Article 33 shall bedeposited with the Secretary-General of the Organization.

  2. The Secretary-General of the Organization shall:

  (a) inform all States which have signed or acceded to thisProtocol of:

  (i) each new signature or deposit of an instrument togetherwith the date thereof;

  (ii) each declaration and notification under Article 30including declarations and withdrawals deemed to have been made inaccordance with that Article;

  (iii) the date of entry into force of this Protocol;

  (iv) the date by

which denunciations provided for in Article31 are required to be made;

  (v) any proposal to amend limits of amounts of compensationwhich has been made in accordance with Article 33, paragraph 1;

  (vi) any amendment which has been adopted in accordance withArticle 33, paragraph 4;

  (vii) any amendment deemed to have been accepted under Article33, paragraph 7, together with the date on which that amendment shallenter into force in accordance with paragraphs 8 and 9 of that Article;

  (viii) the deposit of an instrument of denunciation of thisProtocol together with the date of deposit and the date on which it takeseffect;

  (ix) any denunciation deemed to have been made under Article34, paragraph 5;

  (x) any communication called for by any Article in thisProtocol;

  (b) transmit certified true copies of this Protocol to allSignatory States and to all States which accede to the Protocol.

  3. As soon as this Protocol enters into force, the text shall betransmitted by the Secretary-General of the Organization to theSecretariat of the United Nations for registration and publication inaccordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.Article 39

  Languages

  This Protocol is established in a single original in the Arabic,Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish languages, each text beingequally authentic.

  DONE at London this twenty-fifty day of May one thousand nine hundredand eighty-four.

  IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned being duly authorized for thatpurpose have signed this Protocol

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