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 54STAT.] MULTILATERAL-TELECOMMUNICATION-APR. 8, 1938 [684] §13. The periods mentioned in the two preceding paragraphs [Nos. 682 and 683] may exceed the time stipulated when exceptional difficulties arise in the postal transport of documents between land stations and the administrations to which they belong. Nevertheless, the closing and settlement of accounts presented more than 18 months after the date of the filing of the radiotelegrams, to which the accounts relate, may be refused by the debtor administration. [685] §14. In the absence of contrary arrangement, the following provisions shall be applicable to radiotelegraph accounts considered in the present article. [686] §15. (1) Monthly accounts shall be accepted without revision when the difference between the accounts prepared by the two ad- ministrations concerned does not amount to more than twenty-five francs (fr. 25) or does not exceed one percent of the account of the creditor administration, provided that the amount of this account be not greater than one hundred thousand francs (fr. 100,000); when the amount of the account drawn by the creditor administration is greater than the latter sum, the difference must not exceed a total amount of: [687] 1. 1 percent of the first hundred thousand francs (fr. 100,000); [688] 2. 0 .5 percent of the sum in excess thereof. [689] (2) A revision once begun shall cease as soon as, following an exchange of comments between the administrations concerned, the difference has been reduced to an amount not exceeding the max- imum fixed by the first paragraph of this section [Nos. 686,687, and 688]. [690] §16. (1) Immediately after the acceptance of the accounts ap- pertaining to the last month of a quarter, a quarterly account, set- ting forth the balance for the whole of the three months of the quarter, shall, in the absence of a contrary arrangement between the two administrations concerned, be prepared by the creditor adminis- tration and forwarded in duplicate to the debtor administration, which, after checking it, shall return one of the two copies endorsed with its acceptance. [691] (2) Failing acceptance of one or the other of the monthly accounts of the same quarter before the expiration of the sixth month following the quarter to which the accounts refer, the quarterly ac- count may, nevertheless, be prepared by the creditor administration for a provisional settlement, which shall become obligatory for the debtor administration in the conditions set forth in §17 below [No. 692]. Corrections subsequently found to be necessary shall be in- cluded in a subsequent quarterly settlement. [692] §17. The quarterly account must be verified and the amount thereof must be paid within six weeks from the date on which the debtor administration has received it. After this period, the sums due to one administration by another shall bear interest at the rate of 6 percent per annum, dating from the day following expiration of the said period of grace. 1563

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