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 MULTILATERAL-NARCOTIC DRUGS. JULY 13,1931. The instruments of accession shall be transmitted to the Secretary- General of the League of Nations, who shall notify their receipt to all the Members of the League and to the non-member States mentioned in that Article. Article SO. The present Convention shall come into force ninety days after the Secretary-General of the League of Nations has received the ratifications or accessions of twenty-five Members of the League of Nations or non-member States, including any four of the following: France, Germany, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States of America. Provided always that the provisions of the Convention other than Articles 2 to 5 shall only be applicable from the first of January in the first year in respect of which estimates are furnished in conformity with Articles 2 to 5. Article 31. 1581 Elfectlve dats. Ratifications or accessions received after the date of the coming into ar:tiftTarmstroBot (talk):=jV~ force of this Convention shall take effect as from the expiration of the force. period of ninety days from the date of their receipt by the Secretary- General of the League of Nations. Article 32. Mter the expiration of five years from the date of the coming into force of this Convention, the Convention may be denounced by an instrument in writing, deposited with the Secretary-General of the League of Nations. The denunciation, if received by the Secretary- General on or before the first day of July in any year, shall take effect on the first day of January in the succeeding year, and, if received after the first day of July, shall take effect as if it had been received on or before the first day of July in the succeeding year. Each denunciation shall operate only as regards the Member of the League or non-member State on whose behalf it has been deposited. The Secretary-General shall notify all the Members of the League and the non-member States mentioned in Article 27 of any denuncia- tions received. If, as a result of simultaneous or successive denunciations, the number of Members of the League and non-member States bound by the present Convention is reduced to less than twenty-five, the Convention shall cease to be in force as from the date on which the last of such denunciations shall take effect in accordance with the provisions of this Article. DenUDeiation.