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Section 4
The Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization,
Having met in its Eighth Session, at Montreal, on the first day of June, 1954, and
Having considered it desirable to amend the Convention on International Civil Aviation done at Chicago on the seventh day of December, 1944,
Approved, on the fourteenth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty - four, in accordance with the provisions of Article 94 ( a ) of the Convention aforesaid, the following proposed amendment to the said Convention:
At the end of Article 45 of the Convention, the full stop shall be substituted by a comma, and the following shall be added, namely:
"and otherwise than temporarily by decision of the Assembly, such decision to be taken by the number of votes specified by the Assembly. The number of votes so specified will not be less than three - fifths of the total number of contracting States.",
Specified, pursuant to the provisions of the said Article 94 ( a ) of the said Convention, forty - two as the number of contracting States upon whose ratifications the proposed amendment aforesaid shall come into force, and
Resolved that the Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization draw up a Protocol, in the English, French and Spanish languages, each of which shall be of equal authenticity, embodying the proposed amendment abovementioned and the matters hereinafter appearing.
Consequently, pursuant to the aforesaid action of the Assembly,
This Protocol shall be signed by the President of the Assembly and its Secretary General;
This Protocol shall be open to ratification by any State which has ratified or adhered to the said Convention on International Civil Aviation;
The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the International Civil Aviation Organization;
This Protocol shall come into force among the States which have ratified it on the date on which the forty - second instrument of ratification is so deposited;
The Secretary General shall immediately notify all contracting States of the deposit of each ratification of this Protocol;
The Secretary General shall immediately notify all States parties or signatories to the said Convention of the date on which this Protocol comes into force;
With respect to any contracting State ratifying this Protocol after the date aforesaid, the Protocol shall come into force upon deposit of its instrument of ratification with the International Civil Aviation Organization.
IN FAITH WHEREOF, the President and the Secretary General of the Eighth Session of the Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization, being authorized thereto by the Assembly, sign this Protocol.
DONE at Montreal on the fourteenth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty - four in a single document in the English, French and Spanish languages, each of which shall be of equal authenticity. This Protocol shall remain deposited in the archives of the International Civil Aviation Organization; and certified copies thereof shall be transmitted by the Secretary General of the Organization to all States parties or signatories to the Convention on International Civil Aviation done at Chicago on the seventh day of December, 1944.