THE MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION COMPENDIUM
MULTILATERAL / MARINE MAMMALS
Volume(s) 1-3; pages 1469-1469
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Amendments to the Schedule to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, Tokyo, 1968
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Done at Tokyo 28 June 1968
Entered into force 10 October 1968
Primary source citation: 19 UST 6030, TIAS 6562
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INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION EAST BLOCK, WHITEHALL PLACE, LONDON, S.W.1 Telephone: TRAFALGAR 7711 (Extension 543) Chairman: I. FUJITA (JAPAN) Vice-Chairman: J. L. McHUGH (U.S.A.) Secretary: R. STACEY
10th OCTOBER, 1965
A.S. XX
Circular Communication to All Contracting Governments International Whaling Convention, 1946 Amendments to the Schedule
With reference to the Secretary's circular communication of 11th July, 1968, notifying Contracting Governments of the amendments to the Schedule to the Convention agreed at the Commission's Twentieth Annual Meeting, no objections have been received to these amendments and they therefore become binding on all Contracting Governments as from 10th October, 1968, in accordance with Article V of the Convention.
The amendments are as follows:
Paragraph 1(a), line 3.
Delete the words ‘the Antarctic’.
Paragraph 1(b), line 1.
Add after ‘station’ the following sentence:
‘There shall be maintained such observers as the member countries having jurisdiction over land stations may arrange to place at each other's land stations.’
Paragraph 8(a), line 3.
Delete ‘1967/68’ and substitute, ‘1968/69’.
A revised Schedule incorporating these amendments will be circulated in due course.
A copy of this circular is being sent to each Commissioner.