IV. Convention respecting conditions of
Residence and Business and Jurisdiction
Chapter III
Final Provisions
Article 19
The Contracting Powers reserve the right of
declaring, at the time of the coming into force of the present Convention,
that its provisions do not apply to all or any of their Dominions enjoying
responsible government, or their colonies, protectorates possessions or
territories beyond the sea subject to their sovereignty or authority, and in
this case Turkey will be released from her obligations under the present
Convention to the said Dominions, colonies, protectorates, possessions and
territories.
The said Powers may, however, adhere
subsequently in the name of every Dominion enjoying responsible government,
colony, protectorate, possession or territory in respect of which they have,
in accordance with the terms of the present Convention, made a declaration of
exclusion.
Article 20
The present Convention is concluded for a
period of seven years from its coming into force.
If the Convention is not denounced by one of
the High Contracting Parties at least one year before the expiry of the said
period, it will remain in force until denounced. Such denunciation will take
effected a year after notice of it is give.
In the even of the Convention being denounced
by any one of the Contracting Powers other than Turkey, the denunciation will
only take effect as between such Power and Turkey.
Turkey will be entitled to denounce the
Convention either as regards all the other Contracting Powers, or as regards
only one of them; in the latter event, the Convention will remain in force as
regards the rest.
Article 21
The present Convention shall be ratified.
The ratification's shall be deposited at
Paris as soon as possible.
It shall enter into force in the same way as
the Treaty of Peace signed this day.
In faith whereof the above-named
Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention.
Done at Lausanne, the 24th July,
1923, in a single copy which will be deposited in the archives of the
Government of the French Republic, who will transmit a certified copy to each
of the Signatory Powers.
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