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 (62 STAT.] MULTILATERAIU'NIVERSAL POSTAL UNION-JULY 5, 1947 7° The whole of the British Overseas Territories, including the Colonies, the Protectorates and the Territories under Mandate or under Trusteeship exercised by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; 8° Curagao and Surinam; 9° The Netherlands Indies; 10° The Portuguese Colonies in West Africa; 11° The Portuguese Colonies in East Africa, Asia and Oceania. ARTICLE 9. Application of the Convention to Colonies, Protectorates,etc. 1. Any contracting party may declare, either at the time of its signature, ratification or adhesion, or subsequently, that its accept- ance of the present Convention includes all its colonies, overseas territories, protectorates or territories under suzerainty or mandate, or certain of them only. The said declaration, unless made at the time of signing the Convention, shall be addressed to the Govern- ment of the Swiss Confederation. 2. The Convention will apply only to the colonies, overseas terri- tories, protectorates or territories under suzerainty or mandate in whose name declarations have been made by virtue of Section 1. 3. Any contracting party may at any time address to the Govern- ment of the Swiss Confederation a notification with a view to de- nouncing the application of the Convention to any colony, overseas territory, protectorate or territory under suzerainty or mandate in the name of which that party has made a declaration by virtue of Section 1. Such notification will become effective one year after the date of its receipt by the Government of the Swiss Confederation. 4. The Government of the Swiss Confederation will transmit to all the contracting parties a copy of every declaration or notification received by virtue of Sections 1 to 3. 5. The provisions of the present Article do not apply to any colony, overseas territory, protectorate or territory under suzerainty or mandate enumerated in the Preamble of the Convention. ARTICLE 10. Extent of Jurisdictionof the Union. The following are considered as belonging to the Universal Postal Union: (a) The post offices established by countries of the Union in territories not included in the Union; (b) The other territories which, without being members of the Union, are included in it because they are dependent upon countries of the Union from a postal viewpoint.['] The list of these territories will be included in the Official Digest of Informa- tion of General Interest Concerning the Execution of the Convention and its Regulations, published by the International Bureau in compliance with Article 173, § 2, of the Regulations. 3311

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