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[Communicated to the Council and
the Members of the League.]
Official No: C. 543. M. 351. 1936. V.
Geneva, January 4th, 1937.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
CONDITIONS OF VOTING REQUESTS FOR ADVISORY
OPINIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COURT OF
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
OBSERVATIONS RECEIVED FROM GOVERNMENTS AND FROM
THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE
Contents.
Note by the Secretary-General
Government Observations of :
Australia
Belgium
United Kingdom
China
Denmark
Ecuador
Estonia
Finland
Latvia . .
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Sweden
Turkey
Memorandum by the International Labour Office
Annex: Report presented by the Representative of Italy and adopted by the Council
on January 23rd, 1936
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NOTE BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL.
In pursuance of the report adopted by the Council on January 23rd, 1936 (see Annex),
the Secretary-General requested the Members of the League to communicate to him by
November 1st any observations they might wish to make on the question “ in what
circumstances and subject to what conditions an advisory opinion may be requested under
Article 14 of the Covenant ” (i.e., an advisory opinion of the Permanent Court).
The replies which have been received are reproduced in the present document, which the
Secretary-General has the honour to submit to the Council and circulate to the Members of the
League.
The Director of the International Labour Office has requested the Secretary-General to
communicate to the Council the memorandum reproduced below. The subject there discussed
was in 1929 brought to the attention of the Committee of Jurists on the Statute of the
Permanent Court of International Justice in a memorandum which that Committee decided
to communicate to the Council, but it was not discussed by the Council.1
1 The document distributed to the Council (document C.146.1929.V), now out of print, consisted of the memorandum
of the International Labour Office and a letter from the Chairman of the Committee of Jurists to the Director of the
International Labour Office (for these documents and for the discussion in the Committee of Jurists, which considered itself
incompetent, see Minutes of the Committee of Jurists, pages 75 and 76 and Annexes 5 and 13).
Series of League of Nations Publications
V. LEGAL
1936. V. 9.

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