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PROTOCOL

RELATING TO AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION

[Article 56]

Signed at Montreal on 6 October 20 I 6

THE ASSEMBLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION HAVING MET in its Thirty-

ninth Session at Montreal on 1 October 2016,

HAVING NOTED that it is the general desire of Contracting States to enlarge the membership of the

Air Navigation Commission,

HAVING CONSIDERED it proper to increase the membership of that body from nineteen to twenty-one, and

HAVING CONSIDERED it necessary to amend, for the purpose aforesaid, the Convention on International

Civil Aviation done at Chicago on the seventh day of December 1944,

I. APPROVES, in accordance with the provisions of Article 94(a) of the Convention aforesaid, the following

proposed amendment to the said Convention:

"In Article 56 of the Convention the expression 'nineteen members' shall be replaced by 'twenty-one

members'.";

2. SPECIFIES, pursuant to the provisions of the said Article 94(a) of the said Convention, one hundred

and twenty-eight as the number of Contracting States upon whose ratification the aforesaid amendment shall

come into force; and

3. RESOLYES that the Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization shall draw up a

Protocol, in the English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish languages, each of which shall be of

equal authenticity, embodying the amendment above-mentioned and the matters hereinafter appearing:

a) The Protocol sha l l be signed by the President of the Assembly and its Secretary General.

b) The Protocol shall be open to ratification by any State which has ratified or adhered to the said

Convention on International Civil Aviation.

c) The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the International Civil Aviation Organization.

d) The Protocol shall come into force in respect of the States that have ratified it on the date on which

the one hundred and twenty-eighth instrument of ratification is so deposited.

e) The Secretary General shall immediately notify all Contracting States of the date of deposit of each

ratification of the Protocol.

f) The Secretary General shall immediately notify all Contracting States to the said

Convention of the date on which the Protocol comes into force.

g) With respect to any Contracting State ratifying the Protocol after the date aforesaid, the Protocol shall

come into force upon deposit of its instrument of ratification with the International Civil Aviation Organization.

CONSEQUENTLY, pursuant to the aforesaid action of the Assembly,

This Protocol has been drawn up by the Secretary General of the Organization.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the President and the Secretary General of the aforesaid Thirty-ninth Session of

the Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization, being authorized thereto by the Assembly, sign

this Protocol.

DONE at Montreal on the sixth day of October of the year two thousand and sixteen, in a single

document in the English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish languages, each text being equally

authentic. 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 Contracting

States to the Convention on International Civil Aviation done at Chicago on the seventh day of December

1944.

A. Abdul Rahman F. Liu

President of the Thirty-ninth Session of the Assembly Secretary General