Amendments To The Schedule To The International Convention For The Regulation Of Whaling Of 2 December 1946
Source: AUSTRALIAN TREATY SERIES 1963 No. 36 (electronic)
Paragraph 1(a)
Insert the following words at the end of the first sentence "and also such observers as the member countries engaged in the Antarctic pelagic whaling may arrange to place on each other's factory ships".
Paragraph 5
For the existing sentence in brackets substitute the following sentence:
"This paragraph as a result of a decision of the fourteenth meeting was rendered inoperative until the Commission otherwise decides."
Paragraph 6(2)(a)
Delete (a). Delete all the words in the second and third lines and substitute the words "of the Equator".
Paragraph 6(2)(b)
Delete.
Paragraph 6(3)(a)
Delete (a). Delete the existing wording and substitute the words:
"It is forbidden to kill or attempt to kill blue whales in the waters south of 40° south latitude, except in the waters north of 55° south latitude from 0° eastwards to 80° east longitude."
Paragraph 6(3)(b)
Delete.
Paragraph 8(a)
Delete the words "fifteen thousand blue whale units in 1962/63 or in any subsequent season" and insert the words "ten thousand blue whale units in 1963/64".
Paragraph 8(c)
Delete the figure "13,500" and insert "9,000".
