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Countries which have not signed the present convention shall be allowed to accede to it at any time after the date of the procès-verbal recording the deposit of the first 10 ratifications.

Each accession shall be effected by a notification through the diplomatic channel addressed to the Government of the Netherlands. The latter will deposit the document of accession in its archives and will forthwith inform the governments of all the countries participating in the convention, as well as the Office International d’Hygiène Publique, informing them at the same time of the date of the deposit of the accession. Each accession shall come into force on the one hundred and twentieth day from that date.

Any High Contracting Party may declare, at the time of its signature, ratification, or accession, that its acceptance of this convention does not bind any or all of its colonies, protectorates, territories beyond the sea, or territories under its suzerainty or mandate. In that event the present convention shall not apply to any territories named in such declaration.

Any High Contracting Party may give notice to the Government of the Netherlands at any subsequent date that it desires that the present convention shall apply to any or all of its territories which have been made the subject of a declaration under the preceding paragraph. In that case, the convention shall apply to all the territories named in such notice on the one hundred and twentieth day from the date of the deposit of the notification in the archives of the Government of the Netherlands.