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 61 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-REGULATION OF WHALING-NOV. 26, 1945 torial waters of any contracting Government, shall not apply during the period from 1st May, 1947, to 31st October, 1947, inclusive. ARTICLE 6. (1) In the present Protocol the following expressions shall have the meanings assigned to them in Article 18 of the Principal Agreement: "factory ship," "whalecatcher," "land station," "baleen whale," "blue whale," "hump back whale," "fin whale." (2) Sei whale means, for the purposes of this Protocol, any whale known by the name of balaenoptera borealis, sei whale, Rudolphi's rorqual, pollack whale, or coalfish whale, and shall be taken to include Balaenoptera brydei, Bryde's whale. (3) The expression "land station" shall, for the purposes of Article 5 of the present Protocol, include a factory ship the movements and anchorage of which are confined to the territorial waters of any con- tracting Government. ARTICLE 7. (1) The present Protocol shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification deposited as soon as possible with the Government of the United Kingdom; and it shall be open to accession on behalf of any Government which is a party to the Principal Agreement and the Protocol of 1938 and has not signed the present Protocol. (2) Accession shall be effected by notification addressed to the Government of the United Kingdom. (3) The Government of the United Kingdom shall inform the Governments which are parties or signatories to the present Protocol of all ratifications of this Protocol or accessions thereto. ARTICLE 8. (1) The present Protocol shall come into force in its entirety when all the Governments referred to in the Preamble hereof shall have deposited their instruments of ratification or given notifications of accession. (2) The provisions of this Article and Articles 2, 3, 4, 6 (1), 6 (2) and 7 of the present Protocol shall, when instruments of ratification have been deposited by at least three signatory Governments, become binding on those Governments and shall become binding on each other Government which subsequently ratifies or accedes, on the date of the deposit of its instrument of ratification or notification of its accession. (3) The ratification of or accession to the present Protocol by a Government which is not a party to the Principal Agreement and the Protocol of 1938 shall not become effective until such Government becomes a party to that Agreement and the Protocol of 1938. ARTICLE 9. The present Protocol shall bear the date on which it is opened for signature and shall remain open for signature for a period of 14 days thereafter. In witness whereof the undersigned plenipotentiaries being duly 1215 Definitions. 52 Stat. 1463, Ratification; aoe- sion. 62 Stat. 1400 . 63 Stat. 179 . Entry into fore. Pot, p. 1241. 62rStat. 1460. 53 Stat. 179.

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