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 61 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-SANITAF, MARITIME NAVIGATION-APR. 30, 1946 1119 FOR GREECE: P. ECONOMOU-GOURAS FOR CHINA: WEI TAO-MING FOR LUXEMBOURG: HUGUES LE GALLAIS FOR ECUADOR: Subject to ratification. L. N. PONCE April 30, 1946 April 30, 1946 April 30, 1946 April 30, 1946 FOR AUSTRALIA: Subject to the reservations with which Australia acceded to the 1944 Conven- tion to which this Protocol relates. [1] J B BRIGDEN FOR HAITI: DANTES BELLEGARDE FOR FRANCE: H BONNET April 30, 1946 April 30, 1946 April 30, 1946 I [On Apr. 3, 1945, the Australian Government acceded to the International Sanitary Convention, 1944, subject to the following reservations contained in note no. 156/45 dated Mar. 26, 1946, from the Australian Legation: (a) Under Article No. 24 the Australian Government declares that the Con- vention does not apply to the Territories of Papua and Norfolk Islands or the Mandated Territories of New Guinea and Nauru. (b) The Australian Government reserves the right in respect of certificates of inoculation against cholera, typhus, yellow fever and certificates of vaccination against smallpox, to accept only those certificates which are signed by a recog- nized official of the Public Health Services of the country concerned, and which carry within the text of the certificate an intimation of the office occupied by the person signing the certificate. (c) The Australian Government reserves full rights under Articles Nos. 7 and 9 of the 1926 Convention, especially with reference to the last paragraph on the re-establishment of the Eastern Bureau or analogous agencies as regional bureau for Asia or the Pacific zone.]

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