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Article 7.
The present Protocol is subject to ratification. Ratifications shall be deposited
with the Secretariat of the League of Nations.
The Secretary-General shall give notice of the deposit of each ratification to the
Members of the League of Nations and to the non-Member States mentioned in Article 6,
indicating the date of its deposit.
Article 8.
As from January 1st, 1931, any Member of the League of Nations and any non-
Member State mentioned in Article 6 on whose behalf the Protocol has not been signed
before that date, may accede thereto.
Accession shall be effected by an instrument deposited with the Secretariat of the
League of Nations. The Secretary-General of the League of Nations shall give notice of
each accession to the Members of the League of Nations and to the non-Member States
mentioned in Article 6, indicating the date of the deposit of the instrument.
Article 9.
A proces-verbal shall be drawn up by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations
as soon as ratifications or accessions on behalf of ten Members of the League of Nations
or non-Member States have been deposited.
A certified copy of this proces-verbal shall be sent by the Secretary-General to each
Member of the League of Nations and to each non-Member State mentioned in Article 6.
Article 10
The present Protocol shall enter into force on the 90th day after the date of the
proces-verbal mentioned in Article 9 as regards all Members of the League of Nations
or non-Member States on whose behalf ratifications or accessions have been deposited on
the date of the proces-verbal.
As regards any Member of the League or non-Member State on whose behalf a rati¬
fication or accession is subsequently deposited, the Protocol shall enter into force on
the 90th day after the date of the deposit of a ratification or accession on its behalf.
Article 11.
As from January 1st, 1936, any Member of the League of Nations or any non-Member
State in regard to which the present Protocol is then in force, may address to the
Secretary-General of the League of Nations a request for the revision of any or all of the
provisions of this Protocol. If such a request, after being communicated to the other
Members of the League and non-Member States in regard to which the Protocol is
then in force, is supported within one year by at least nine of them, the Council of the
League of Nations shall decide, after consultation with the Members of the League of
Nations and the non-Member States mentioned in Article 6, whether a conference should
be specially convoked for that purpose or whether such revision should be considered
at the next conference for the codification of international law.
The High Contracting Parties agree that, if the present Protocol is revised, the
new Agreement may provide that upon its entry into force some or all of the pro¬
visions of the present Protocol shall be abrogated in respect of all of the Parties to the
present Protocol.
Article 12.
The present Protocol may be denounced.
Denunciation shall be effected by a notification in writing addressed to the Secretary-
General of the League of Nations, who shall inform all Members of the League of Nations
and the non-Member States mentioned in Article 6.
Each denunciation shall take effect one year after the receipt by the Secretary-Gen¬
eral of the notification but only as regards the Member of the League or non-Member
State on whose behalf it has been notified.
Article 13.
1. Any High Contracting Party may, at the time of signature, ratification or acces¬
sion, declare that, in accepting the present Protocol, he does not assume any obligations
in respect of all or any of his colonies, protectorates, overseas territories or territories
under suzerainty or mandate, or in respect of certain parts of the population of the said
territories; and the present Protocol shall not apply to any territories or to the parts
of their population named in such declaration.