"That the last paragraph of Article 6 of the Covenant should be replaced by the following paragraph: "The expenses of the League shall be borne by the members of the League in the proportion decided by the Assembly.'" The undersigned, being duly authorised, declare that they accept, on behalf of the members of the League which they represent, the above amendment. The present Protocol will remain open for signature by the members of the League; it will be ratified and the ratifications will be deposited as soon as possible with the Secretariat of the League. It will come into force in accordance with the provisions of Article 26 of the Covenant. A certified copy of the present Protocol will be transmitted by the Secretary-General to all members of the League. Done at Geneva, on the 5th day of October, 1921, in a single copy, of which the French and English texts are both authentic and which will be kept in the archives of the Secretariat of the League. President of the Second Assembly: VAN KARNEBEEK. Secretary-General: ERIC DRUMMOND. Protocol of an Amendment to Article 12 of the Covenant.(3) [British ratification deposited July 5, 1923.] The Second Assembly of the League of Nations, under the presidency of his Excellency Jonkheer H. A. van Karnebeek, with the Honourable Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary-General, adopted, at its meeting of the 4th October, 1921, the following resolution, being an amendment to Article 12 of the Covenant : Article 12 shall read as follows: 'The members of the League agree that, if there should arise between them any dispute likely to lead to a rupture, they will submit the matter either to arbitration or judicial settlement or to enquiry by the Council, and they agree in no case to resort to war until three months after the award by the arbitrators, or the judicial decision, or the report by the Council. (3) Came into force, September 26, 1924. 'In any case under this Article the award of the arbitrators or the judicial decision shall be made within a reasonable time, and the report of the Council shall be made within six months after the submission of the dispute." The undersigned, being duly authorised, declare that they accept, on behalf of the members of the League which they represent, the above amendment. The present Protocol will remain open for signature by the members of the League; it will be ratified and the ratifications will be deposited as soon as possible with the Secretariat of the League. It will come into force in accordance with the provisions of Article 26 of the Covenant. A certified copy of the present Protocol will be transmitted by the Secretary-General to all members of the League. Done at Geneva, on the 5th day of October, 1921, in a single copy, of which the French and English texts are both authentic and which will be kept in the archives of the Secretariat of the League. President of the Second Assembly: VAN KARNEBEEK. Secretary-General: ERIC DRUMMOND. RATIFICATIONS of the Protocol of an Amendment to Article 12 of the Covenant of the League of Nations.Geneva, October 4, 1921. (1) RATIFICATIONS of the Protocol of an Amendment to Article 6 of the Covenant of the League of Nations.Geneva, October 5, 1921. (1) THE ratifications have been deposited of: September 28, 1923. July 4, 1923. October 5, 1923. September 5, 1923. September 12, 1922. August 24, 1922. March 29, 1923. (1) Page 857. RATIFICATIONS of Protocols of Amendments to Article 16 of the Covenant of the League of Nations.-Geneva, October 4, 1921.(1) Denmark... Esthonia Finland Hungary Italy Japan ... Netherlands Norway Portugal Roumania (2)Siam Sweden Switzerland ... ... August 11, 1922. October 5, 1923. September 5, 1923. (2) First Amendment ratified, December 4, 1922. RATIFICATION of Protocols of Amendments to Article 26 of the Covenant of the League of Nations.-Geneva, October 3, 1921.(1) RULES of Court of the Permanent Court of International Justice.-The Hague, March 24, 1922.(1) Rules of Court. Preamble. THE Court, by virtue of Article 30 of its Statute, adopts the present Rules: CHAPTER I.-The Court. Heading 1.-Constitution of the Court. Section (A).--Judges and Assessors. ART. 1.--Subject to the provisions of Article 14 of the Statute, the term of office of judges and deputy-judges shall commence on the 1st January of the year following their election. 2. Judges and deputy-judges elected at an earlier session (1) Also drawn up in the French language. of the Assembly and of the Council of the League of Nations shall take precedence respectively over judges and deputyjudges elected at a subsequent session. Judges and deputyjudges elected during the same session shall take precedence according to age. Judges shall take precedence over deputyjudges. National judges chosen from outside the Court, under the terms of Article 31 of the Statute, shall take precedence after deputy-judges in order of age. The list of deputy-judges shall be prepared in accordance with these principles. The Vice-President shall take his seat on the right of the President. The other members of the Court shall take their seats to the right and left of the President in the order laid down above. 3. Deputy-judges whose presence is necessary shall be summoned in the order laid down in the list referred to in the preceding Article, that is to say, each of them will be summoned in rotation throughout the list. Should a deputy-judge be so far from the seat of the Court that, in the opinion of the President, a summons would not reach him in sufficient time, the deputy-judge next on the list shall be summoned; nevertheless, the judge to whom the summons should have been addressed shall be called upon, if possible, on the next occasion that the presence of a deputy-judge is required. A deputy-judge who has begun a case shall be summoned again, if necessary out of his turn, in order to continue to sit in the case until it is finished. Should a deputy-judge be summoned to take his seat in a particular case as a national judge, under the terms of Article 31 of the Statute, such summons shall not be regarded as coming within the terms of the present Article. 4. In cases in which one or more parties are entitled to choose a judge ad hoc of their nationality, the full Court may sit with a number of judges exceeding eleven. When the Court has satisfied itself, in accordance with Article 31 of the Statute, that there are several parties in the same interest and that none of them has a judge of its nationality upon the bench, the Court shall invite them, within a period to be fixed by the Court, to select by common agreement a deputy judge of the nationality of one of the parties, should there be one; or, should there not be one, a judge chosen in accordance with the principles of the abovementioned Article. Should the parties have failed to notify the Court of their selection or choice when the time limit expires, they shall be regarded as having renounced the right conferred upon them by Article 31. |