Protocol concerning the Office International d'Hygiene Publique
Source: Unofficial Text
Article 1
The Governments signatory to this Protocol agree that, as between themselves, the duties and functions of the Office International d'Hygiène Publique as defined in the Agreement signed at Rome on 9 December 1907, shall be performed by the World Health Organization or its Interim Commission and that, subject to existing international obligations, they will take the necessary steps to accomplish this purpose.
Article 2
The Parties to this Protocol further agree that, as between themselves, from the date when thIS Protocol comes into force, the duties and functions conferred upon the Office by the International Agreements listed in Annex 1 shall be performed by the Organization or its Interim Commission.
Article 3
The Agreement of 1907 shall be terminated and the Office dissolved when all Parties to the Agreement have agreed to its termination. It shall be understood that any Government Party to the Agreement of 1907 has agreed, by becoming a Party to this Protocol, to the termination of the Agreement of 1907.
Article 4
The Parties to this Protocol further agree that, if all the Parties to the Agreement of 1907 have not agreed to its termination by 15 November 1949, they will then, in accordance with Article 8 thereof, denounce the Agreement of 1907.
Article 5
Any Government Party to the Agreement of 1907 which is not a signatory to this Protocol may at any time accept this Protocol by sending an instrument of acceptance to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who will inform all signatory and other Governments which have accepted this Protocol of such accession.
Article 6
Governments may become parties to this Protocol by:
(a) signature without reservation as to approval;
(b) signature subject to approval followed by acceptance; or
(c) acceptance.
Acceptance shall be effected by the deposit of a formal instrument with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Article 7
This Protocol shall come into force when twenty Governments Parties to the Agreement of 1907 have become Parties to this Protocol.
IN FAITH WHEREOF the duly authorized representatives of their respective Governments have signed the present Protocol, which is drawn up in the English and French languages, both texts being equally authentic, in a single original which shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Authentic copies shall be furnished by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to each of the signatory and accepting Governments and to any other Government which, at the time this Protocol is signed, is a Party to the Agreement of 1907. The Secretary-General will as soon as possible notify each of the Parties to this Protocol when it comes into force.
DONE in the City of New York this twenty-second day of July 1946.
[Signatures not reproduced here.]
ANNEX 1
1. International Sanitary Convention of 21 June 1926.
2. Convention modifying the International Sanitary Convention of 21 June 1926, signed 31 October 1938.
3. International Sanitary Convention, 1944, modifying the International Sanitary Convention of 21 June 1926.
4. Protocol to prolong the International Sanitary Convention, 1944 (opened for signature 23 April 1946; in force, 30 April 1946).
5. International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation of 12 April 1933.
6. International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation, 1944, modifying the International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation of 12 April 1933.
7. Protocol to prolong the International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation, 1944 (opened for signature 23 April 1946; in force, 30 April 1946).
8. International Agreement relating to Facilities to be accorded to Merchant Seamen in the Treatment of Venereal Diseases, Brussels, 1 December 1924.
9. Convention in Traffic in Opium and Drugs, Geneva, 19 February 1925.
10. Convention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, Geneva, 13 July 1931.
11. Convention relating to the Anti-Diphtheria Serum, Paris, 1 August 1930.
12. International Convention for Mutual Protection against Dengue Fever, Athens, 25 July 1934.
13. International Agreement for Dispensing with Bill of Health, Paris, 22 December 1934.
14. International Agreement for Dispensing with Consular Visas on Bills of Health, Paris, 22 December 1934.
15. International Agreement concerning the Transport of Corpses, Berlin, 10 February 1937.
