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 1126 TREATIES [61 STAT. FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND: HALIFAX. April 29, 1946 FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Subject to ratification. DEAN ACHESON April 30, 1946 FOR GREECE: P. ECONOMOU-GOUIAS April 30, 1946 FOR CHINA: WEI TAO-MING April 30, 1946 FOR LUXEMBOURG: HUGUES LE GALLAII April 30, 1946 FOR ECUADOR: Subject to ratification. L. N. PONCE April 0S,1946 FOR AUSTRALIA: Subject to the reservations with which Australia acceded to the 1944 Con- vention to which this Protocol relates. [1l J B BRIGDEN April 30, 1946 FOR HAITI: DANTES BELLEGARDE April 30, 1946 FOR FRANCE: H BONNET April 30, 1946 ' [On April 3, 1945, the Australian Government acceded to the International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation of 1944, subject to the following reser- vations contained in note No. 156/45 dated March 26, 1946, from the Australian Legation: (a) Pursuant to Article No. 21, the Government declares that the Convention . 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 recognized 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, for temporary reasons of a practical nature, is not in a position to accept the full obligations arising out of Section 1, Part 1 of the 1933 Convention in relation to aerodromes within its territory which are within operational areas or under the control of the Air Forces of the Common- wealth or any Allied power. (d) Notwithstanding Article No. 35 or other provisions of the 1933 or the present Convention, the Australian Government reserves the right to require that every member of the crew and every passenger on every aircraft arriving from overseas shall, on arrival at the first landing place in Australia, produce to the quarantine officer there a certificate of recent vaccination against smallpox as defined in the Convention, or a certificate that he has given proof that he is adequately immune to smallpox, failing both of which certificates he shall submit to be vaccinated against smallpox. (e) The Australian Government reserves the right to prohibit the importation into Australia on any aircraft of any animal other than approved insects and parasites.]

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