Article 16
Any one of the High Contracting Parties shall have the right three years after this convention comes into force to call for a fresh conference with a view to seeking such ameliorations as may be brought therein, and particularly with a view to extending, if possible, the sphere of its application.
Any power exercising this right must notify its intention to the other powers, through the Belgian Government, which will see to the convening of the conference within six months.
Article 17
States which have not signed the convention are allowed to adhere to it on request. Such adhesion shall be notified through the diplomatic channel to the Belgian Government and by the latter to each of the other Governments. It shall become effective one month after the sending of the notification by the Belgian Government.
Article 18[1]
This convention shall be ratified.
After an interval of at most one year from the day on which the convention is signed, the Belgian Government shall place itself in communication with the Governments of the High Contracting Parties which have declared themselves prepared to ratify the convention with a view to deciding whether it is expedient to put it into force.
The ratification shall, if so decided, be deposited forthwith at Brussels, and the convention shall come into force a month afterwards.
The protocol shall remain open another year in favor of the States represented at the Brussels Conference. After this interval they can only adhere to it on conforming to the provisions of Article 17.
Article 19
In the case of one or other of the High Contracting Parties denouncing this convention, such denunciation should not take effect until a year after the day on which it has been notified to the Belgian Government, and the convention would remain in force as between the other Contracting Parties.
In witness whereof the plenipotentiaries of the respective High Contracting Parties have signed this convention and have affixed their seals thereto.
Done at Brussels, in a single copy, the 23rd September, 1910.
- ↑ The procès-verbal of first deposit of ratifications dated Feb. 1, 1913, provided that "the date of February 1, 1913, shall mark the commencement of the period of one month, stipulated in article 18 of the Convention, as regards its coming into force" (translation). It further provided that "States signatories of the Convention which were not able to deposit their ratifications on the date of February 1, 1913, shall have another year, commencing on that date, in which to carry out this formality" (translation). For complete text of procès-verbal, see British Treaty Series No. 4 (1913), p. 78.
