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THE MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION COMPENDIUM

MULTILATERAL / MARINE MAMMALS
Volume(s) 1-3; pages 1470-1470


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Amendments to the Schedule to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, London, 1969


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Done at London 27 June 1969


Entered into force 6 October 1969


Primary source citation: 20 UST 4063, TIAS 6794


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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

16th OCTOBER, 1969

AS.XXI

Circular letter to all Contracting Governments International Whaling Convention, 1946 Amendments to the Schedule

With reference to the Secretary's circular note of 7th July, 1969, notifying Contracting Governments of the amendments to the Schedule to the Convention agreed at the Commission's Twenty-first Annual Meeting, no objections have been received to these amendments and they therefore become binding on all Contracting Governments as from 6th October, 1969, in accordance with Article V of the Convention.

The amendments are as follows:

Paragraph 4(1)(a)

Delete the words after ‘Ocean’ and substitute the following: ‘for the three years ending on 24th February, 1973.’

Paragraph 6(1), line 2

Delete ‘1969’ and substitute ‘1972’.

Paragraph 8(a), line 3

Delete ‘3,200’ and ‘1968/69’ and substitute ‘2,700’ and ‘1969/70’ respectively.

A revised Schedule incorporating these amendments will be circulated in due course.

A copy of this circular is being sent to each Commissioner.