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 TELECOMMUNICATIO~ CONVENTION. DECEMBER 9, 1932. 2553 [802] (2) In case of payment by means of checks or drafts, these papers shall be drawn up in the currency of a country where the central issuing bank or another official issuing institution buys and sells gold or gold currency for the national currency at fixed rates determined by law or by virtue of an agreement with the government. If the currencies of seyeral countries answer these conditions, it shall devolve upon the creditor administration to indicate the currency which it desires. Conversion shall be made at par of gold currency. [603] (3) In the case where the currency of a creditor country does not comply with the conditions set forth above under (2), and if the two countries have an agreement on the subject, the checks or drafts may also be drawn up in the currency of the creditor country. In this case, the balance shall be converted at par of gold currency into the currency of a country complying with the above conditions. The resulting values shall then be converted into the currency of the debtor country, and from that into the currency of the creditor country, at the rate of exchange of the capital or of a place of commerce of the debtor country on the day of delivery of the purchasing order for the check or draft. [80(] § 20. Remittance charges shall be borne by the debtor adminis- tration. [505] § 21. The originals of radiotelegrams and statements of ac- counts relating thereto shall be preserved until the settlement of the accounts to which they relate and in any case for at least 10 months, counting from the month following the filing of the radiotelegram, with all necessary precautions to maintain secrecy. ARTICLE 28 Aeronautical Radio Service oj Public Oorrespondence Public ,·orrespon<l· ence. [liOG] In the absence of special arrangements (art. 13 of the Con- se~:lautiraJ vention) the provisions of the present Regulations concerning the Antt, p. 2401. procedure for the exchange of or accounting for radio communications raclio shall be applicable, in a general way, to the aeronautical radio service of public correspondence. ARTICLE 29 Service oj Low-power Mobile Radiotelephone Stations 1 [507] § 1. The following provisions affect only the service of mobile radiotelephone stations, in which the carrier-wave power in the antenna does not exceed 100 watts [except by regional agreements provided for in art. 10, § 7 (4) of the present Regulations] within the band 1,530 to 2,000 kc (196.1 to 150 m). [508] § 2. The service of such a station must be performed by an operator holding a radiotelephone operator's certificate. (Art. 10, § 7 of the present Regulations). 1 When the occasion arises, these provisioDs may be applied to aircraft statioDs.
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