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tance, approval or accession, that it will exclude chapter vu from the application of the Convention.

2 — The provisions of chapter vu shall be applicaole only in the relations between States Parties for which it is in force.

3 — Each State Party may, at any subsequent time, notify the Secretary General of the Council of Europe that it will apply the provisions of chapter vu excluded at the time of signature or in its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. This notification shall become effective as from the date of its receipt.

Article 26

Effects of this Convention

1 — The provisions of this Convention shall not prejudice the provisions of internal law and binding international instruments which are already in force or may come into force, under which more favourable rights are or would be accorded to individuals in the field of nationality.

2 — This Convention does not prejudice the application of:

a) The 1963 Convention on the Reduction of Cases of Multiple Nationality and Military Obligations in Cases of Multiple Nationality and its Protocols;

b) Other binding international instruments in so far as such instruments are compatible with this Convention;

in the relationship between the States Parties bound by these instruments.

CHAPTER X Final clauses

Article 27.

Signature and entry into force

1 — This Convention shall be open for signature by the member States of the Council of Europe and the non-member States which have participated in its elaboration. Such States may express their consent to be bound by:

a) Signature without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval; or

b) Signature subject to ratification, acceptance or approval, followed by ratification, acceptance or approval.

Instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

2 — This Convention shall enter into force, for all States having expressed their consent to be bounc by the Convention, on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of three months after the date on which three member States of the Council of Europe have expressed their consent to be bound by this Convention in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

3 — In respect of any State which subsequently expresses its consent to be bound by it, the Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month fol-

lowing the expiration of a period of three months after the date of signature or of the deposit of its instrument

of ratification, acceptance or approval.

Article 28 Accession

1 — After the entry into force of this Convention, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe may invite any non-member State of the Council of Europe which has not participated in its elaboration to accede to this Convention.

2 — In respect of any acceding State, this Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of three months after the date of deposit of the instrument of accession with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

Article 29

Reservations

1 — No reservations may be made to any of the provisions contained in chapters i, m and vi of this Convention. Any State may, a't the time of signature or when depositing its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, make one or more reservations to other provisions of the Convention so long as they are compatible with the object and purpose of this Convention.

2 — Any State which makes one or more reservations shall notify the Secretary General of the Council of Europe of the relevant contents of its internal law or of any other relevant information.

3 — A State which has made one or more reservations in accordance with paragraph 1 shall consider withdrawing them in whole or in part as soon as circumstances permit. Such withdrawal shall be made by means of a notification addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe and shall become effective as from the date of its receipt.

4 — Any State which extends the application of this Convention to a territory mentioned in the declaration referred to in article 30, paragraph 2, may, in respect of the territory concerned, make one or more reservations in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraphs.

5 — A State Party which has made reservations in respect of any of the provisions in chapter vn of the Convention may not claim application of the said provisions by another State Party save in so far as it has itself accepted these provisions.

Article 30 Territorial application

1 — Any State may, at the time of signature or when depositing its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, specify the territory or territories to which this Convention shall apply.

2 — Any State may, at any later date, by a declaration addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, extend the application of this Convention to any other territory specified in the declaration and for whose international relations it is responsible or on whose behalf it.is authorised to give undertakings. Vsv respect of such territory, the Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the expir-