Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION
GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
Athens Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and Their Luggage by Sea, 1974. The Secretary-General of the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization has the honour to refer to the Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and Their Luggage by Sea, 1974, and to state that an Instrument of Accession was deposited by the Government of the German Democratic Republic on Aug. 29, 1979, in accordance with art. 23. The Instrument of Accession was accompanied by the following reservation (in the German language):
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“The German Democratic Republic declares that the provisions of this Convention shall have no effect when the passenger is a national of the German Democratic Republic and when the performing carrier is a permanent resident of the German Democratic Republic or has its seat there”.
Article 24 provides that this Convention shall enter into force on the 90th day following the date on which 10 States have either signed it without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval or have deposited the requisite instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.
MONACO
International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1971. The Secretary-General of the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization has the honour to refer to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, done at Brussels on Dec. 18, 1971, and to state that an Instrument of Accession to the Convention was deposited by the Government of the Principality of Monaco on Aug. 23, 1979. The Convention will enter into force for the Government of Monaco on Nov. 21, 1979, in accordance with the provisions of art. 40 of the Convention.
TUVALU
International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1971. The Secretary-General of the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization has the honour to refer to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, done at Brussels on Dec. 18, 1971, and to document IFC/Circ.6 of Apr. 9, 1976, by which he notified Governments that the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, when ratifying the Convention, had declared that its ratification was also effective in respect of Tuvalu. By a communication dated June 25, 1979, to the Secretary-General the Government of Tuvalu has stated that, by virtue of the Tuvalu Independence Order, 1978, the Convention remained part of the law of Tuvalu after it had achieved independence.
Tuvalu is accordingly to be considered as being a Contracting State to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation
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