Article 94
The conditions on which the powers which have not been invited to the Second Peace Conference may adhere to the present convention shall form the subject of a subsequent agreement between the Contracting Powers.[1]
Article 95
The present convention shall take effect, for those powers which participate in the first deposit of ratifications, sixty days after the date of the procès-verbal of this deposit, and, in the case of the powers which ratify subsequently or which adhere, sixty days after the notification of their ratification or of their adhesion has been received by the Netherland Government.
Article 96
In the event of one of the Contracting Parties wishing to denounce the present convention, the denunciation shall be notified in writing to the Netherland Government, which shall immediately communicate a duly certified copy of the notification to all the other powers informing them of the date on which it was received.
The denunciation shall have effect only in regard to the notifying power, and one year after the notification has reached the Netherland Government.
Article 97
A register kept by the Netherland Minister for Foreign Affairs shall give the date of the deposit of ratifications effected in virtue of article 92, paragraphs 3 and 4, as well as the date on which the notifications of adhesion (article 93, paragraph 2) or of denunciation (article 96, paragraph 1) have been received.
Each Contracting Power is entitled to have access to this register and to be supplied with duly certified extracts from it.
In faith whereof, the plenipotentiaries have appended their signatures to the present convention.
Done at The Hague, the 18th of October, 1907, in a single copy, which shall remain deposited in the archives of the Netherland Government, and
- ↑ The Administrative Council of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, at its meeting on Mar. 3, 1960, having consulted all parties to the Hague conventions on pacific settlement of international disputes, in conformity with provisions of art. 94, decided that after Mar. 15, 1960, the Netherlands Government would invite members of the United Nations which did not participate in the activities of the Permanent Court of Arbitration to declare (1) whether they considered themselves as contracting parties to the 1899 or 1907 Hague conventions on pacific settlement, or, if this were not the case, (2) whether they were willing to adhere to these conventions or to one of them. Several members of the United Nations responded to the invitation.
