PROTOCOL FOR THE PROLONGATION OF THE SANITARY CONVENTION OF 1944

Note: The Philippines was an original signatory to this Protocol.
The Philippine instrument of accession was deposited with the UN,
January 13; 1948. The Protocol entered into force, April 30, 1946, and
with respect to the Philippines, January 13, 194&.

Reference: This agreement is also published in 17 UNTS, p. 3.

The Governments signatory to the present Protocol, Considering
that, unless prolonged in force by action taken for that purpose by the
interested Governments, the International Sanitary Convention, 1944,
Modifying the International Sanitary Convention of June 21, 1926, will
expire on July 15, 1946, the expiration of eighteen months from the date
on which the said 1944 Convention entered into force; and Considering
that it is desirable that the said 1944 Convention shall be prolonged in
force after July 15, 1946 between the Governments parties thereto; Have
appointed their respective Plenipotentiaries who, having deposited
their full powers, found in good and proper form, have agreed as
follows:

ARTICLE I

Subject to the limitation provided for in Article II
of the present Protocol, the International Sanitary Convention, 1944,
Modifying the International Sanitary Convention of June 21, 1926, shall
be prolonged in force on and after July 15, 1946, in respect of each of
the Governments parties to the present Protocol, until the date on which
such Government shall become bound by a further Convention amending or
superseding the said 1944 Convention and the said 1926 Convention.

ARTICLE II

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
(hereinafter referred to as UNRRA) shall continue to perform the duties
and functions assigned to it by the said 1944 Convention, as prolonged
by the present Protocol, until such time as a new International Health
Organization shall be established, at which time such duties and
functions shall be transferred to and shall be assumed by such new
International Health Organization, provided that if the new
International Health Organization has not been formed or, having been
formed, is unable to perform the above duties and functions by the date
on which UNRRA, owing to the termination of its activities in Europe or
for any other reason, ceases to be able to perform them, those duties
and functions shall be entrusted to the Office International d’Hygiene
Publique and the countries signatory to this Protocol will, in that
event, make appropriate financial provisions so as to enable the Office
to perform those duties and functions.

ARTICLE III

The present Protocol shall remain open for signature until May 1, 1946.

ARTICLE IV

The present Protocol shall come into force when it has been signed
without reservation in regard to ratification, or instruments of
ratification have been deposited or notifications of accession have been
received on behalf of at least ten Governments. The present Protocol
shall come into force in respect of each of the other signatory
Governments on the date of signature on its behalf, unless such
signature is made with a reservation in regard to ratification, in which
event the present Protocol shall come into force in respect of such
Government on the date of the deposit of its instrument of ratification.

ARTICLE V

After May 1, 1946, the present Protocol shall be open to accession
by any Government which is a party to the 1944 Convention and is not a
signatory to the present Protocol. Each accession shall be notified in
writing to the Government of the United States of America. Accessions
notified on or before the date on which the present Protocol enters into
force shall be effective as of that date. Accessions notified after the
date of the entry into force of the present Protocol shall become
effective in respect of each Government upon the date of the receipt of
that Government’s notification of accession.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries sign the
present Protocol, on the date indicated opposition their respective
signatures, in the English and French languages, both texts being
equally authentic, in a single original which shall be deposited in the
archives of the Government of the United States of America and of which
certified copies shall be furnished by the Government of the United
States of America to each of the signatory and acceding Governments and
to each of the Governments parties to the said 1944 Convention or the
said 1926 Convention.

DONE at Washington this twenty-third day of April, 1946.