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TELECOMMUNICATION CONVENTION. DECEMBER 9, 1932. [4811] § 9. For radiotelegrams exchanged between on-board stations- [487] (a) through the intermediary of a single land station: The administration to which the land station is subject shall debit the one to which the on-board station of origin is subject: with the land charge, with the territorial telegraph charge, if any, and with the charge of the on-board station of destination. It shall credit the administration to which the on-board station of destination is subject with the on-board charge accruing to that station. [{88] (b) through the intermediary of two land stations: The administration to which the first land station is subject shall debit the one to which the on-board station of origin is subject, with all the charges collected, deduction being made of the charges accruing to this on-board station. The administration to which the second land station is subject, shall debit directly the administration to which the first land station is subject, with the charges pertaining to transmission to the mobile station of destination, but only where this transmission has been made. [489] § 10. For radiotelegrams which are routed, at the sender's request, through one or two intermediary on-board stations, each of these sha11 debit the on-board station of destination, in the case of a radiotelegram addressed to an on-board station, or the on-board sta- tion of origin when the radiotelegram originates with an on-board station, with the on-board charge accruing to it for transit. B. EXCHANGE, VERIFICATION, AND SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS 2549 [ 490] § 11. In principle settlement of accounts pertaining to ex- . F .xchange• verifics- , tlOn, and settlement of changes between on-board stations shall be made directly among uccounts. the agencies operating these stations, the operating agency to which the station of origin is subject being debited by that to which the station of destination is subject. [491] § 12. In principle, monthly accounts, serving as basis for the accounting of radiotelegrams, dealt with in this article, shall be set up, using so far as possible the model form shown in appendix 11, for each on-board station separately and according to the num- ber of words per month in the radiotelegrams of the same origin and for the same destination, exchanged with the same land sta- tion. Accounts shall be sent within 3 months after the month to which they refer. [492] § 13. Notice of acceptance of an account, or comments con- cerning it, shall be sent within 6 months from the date on which the latter is rendered. [493] § 14. The periods mentioned in the two preceding paragraphs may exceed the time stipulated when exceptional difficulties arise in the postal transport of documents between land stations and the administrations to which they belong. Nevertheless, the closing and settlement of accounts presented more than 18 months after the date of the filing of the radiotelegrams, to which the accounts relate. may be refused. by the debtor administration.