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 2094 MULTILATERAL CONVENTION-SICK,WOUNDED. JULY 27,1929. Notification or mess- TIs se communiqueront par ures taken. l'intennediaire du Conseil f6deral suisse, les dis'POsitions relatives a cette repression, au plus tard dans les cinq ans a dater de la ratification de la presente Con- vention. InvestigatlIli viola· tions. Final provisions. Date. ARTICLE 80. Ala demande d'un belligerant, une enquete devra etre ouverte, selon Ie mode a fixer entre les parties interessees, au sujet de toute violation alIeguee de la Convention; une fois la violation constatee, les belligerants y met- tront fin et la reprimeront Ie plus promptement possible. DispositioruJ finales. ARTICLE 31. La presente Convention, qui portera la date de ce jour, pourra, jusqu'au premier fevrier 1930, etre signee au nom de tous les pays representes a la Conference qUI s'est ouverte a Geneve Ie 1er juillet 1929, ainsi que des pays non representes a cette Confe- rence qui participent aux Conven- tions de Geneve de 1864 ou de 1906. ARTICLE 82. Ratification and de- La presente Convention sera posit. ratifiee aussiMt que possible. Certified copies. Effective date. Les ratifications seront deposees a Berne. n sera dresse du dep~t de chaque instrument de ratification un :proces-verbal dont une copie, certifiee confonne, sera remise par Ie Conseil federal suisse aux Gouvernements de tous les pays au nom de qui la Convention aura ete signee ou l'adhesion notifiee. ARTICLE 33. La presente Convention entrera en vigueur six mois apree que deux instruments de ratification au moins auront ete deposes. They shall communicate to one another through the Swiss Federal Council the measures taken with a view to such repression, not later than five years from the date of the ratification of the present Convention. ARTICLE 80. At the request of a belligerent, an investigation must be held, in such manner as shall be agreed upon by the interested parties, concernmg any alleged vlOlation of the Convention; whenever such a violation is proved, the bellig- erents shall put an end to it and repress it as promptly as possible. Final Provisions. ARTICLE 81. The present Convention, which will bear the date of this day, may be signed up to February 1, 1930, on behalf of all the countries rep- resented at the Conference which opened at Geneva on July 1, 1929, as well as by the countries not represented at the Conference which are parties to the Geneva Conventions of 1864 or of 1906. ARTICLE 82. The present Convention shall be ratified as soon as possible. The ratification shall be de- posited at Berne. A record of the deposit of each instrument of ratification shall be prepared, a duly certified copy of which shall be forwarded by the Swiss Federal Council to the Gov- ernments of all the countries on whose behalf the Convention has been signed or notification of ad- hesion made. ARTICLE 38. The present Convention shall become effective six months after the deposit of at least two instru- ments of ratification.