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 TREATIES Ratification. Post,p. 1466 . Notification of date Agreement comes into force. Provisional date. Effect if signatory unwilling to ratify. Notification. Duration. "sperm whale" means any whale known by the name of sperm whale, spermacet whale, cachalot or pot whale; "length" in relation to any whale means the distance measured on the level in a straight line between the tip of the upper jaw and the notch between the flukes of the tail. ARTICLE 19. The present Agreement shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as soon as possible. It shall come into force upon the deposit of instruments of ratification by a majority of the signatory Governments, which shall include the Governments of the United Kingdom, Germany and Norway; and for any other Government not included in such majority on the date of the deposit of its instrument of ratification. The Government of the United Kingdom will inform the other Governments of the date on which the Agreement thus comes into force and the date of any ratification received subsequently. ARTICLE 20. The present Agreement shall come into force provisionally on the 1st day of July, 1937, to the extent to which the signatory Govern- ments are respectively able to enforce it; provided that if any Govern- ment within two months of the signature of the Agreement informs the Government of the United Kingdom that it is unwilling to ratify it the provisional application of the Agreement in respect of that Government shall thereupon cease. The Government of the United Kingdom will communicate the name of any Government which has signified that it is unwilling to ratify the Agreement to the other Governments, any of whom may within one month of such communication withdraw its ratification or accession or signify its unwillingness to ratify as the case may be, and the provisional application of the Agreement in respect of that Gov- ernment shall thereupon cease. Any such withdrawal or communi- cation shall be notified to the Government of the United Kingdom, by whom it will be transmitted to the other Governments. ARTICLE 21. The present Agreement shall, subject to the preceding article, re- main in force until the 30th day of June, 1938, and thereafter if, before that date, a majority of the contracting Governments, which shall include the Governments of the United Kingdom, Germany and Norway, shall have agreed to extend its duration. In the event of such extension it shall remain in force until the contracting Gov- ernments agree to modify it, provided that any contracting Govern- ment may, at any time after the 30th day of June, 1938, by giving notice on or before the 1st day of January in any year to the Govern- ment of the United Kingdom (who on receipt of such notice shall at once communicate it to the other contracting Governments) withdraw from the Agreement, so that it shall cease to be in force in respect of 1464 [52 STAT.

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