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2. Ratification, acceptance or approval of this Protocol by any State which is not a Party to the Convention

shall have the effect of ratification, acceptance or approval of The Hague Convention as amended by the Beijing

Protocol, 2010.

3. Any State which does not ratify, accept or approve this Protocol in accordance with paragraph 1 of this

Article may accede to it at any time. The instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Depositary.

Article XXII

Upon ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to this Protocol, each State Party:

(a) shall notify the Depositary of the jurisdiction it has established under its national law in accordance with

paragraph 2 of Article 4 of The Hague Convention as amended by the Beijing Protocol, 2010, and immediately

notify the Depositary of any change; and

(b) may declare that it shall apply the provisions of subparagraph (d) of paragraph 3 of Article 1 of The Hague

Convention as amended by the Beijing Protocol, 2010 in accordance with the principles of its criminal law

concerning family exemptions from liability.

Article XXIII

1. This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following the date of the deposit of

the twenty-second instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession with the Depositary.

2. For each State ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to this Protocol after the deposit of the twenty-

second instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, this Protocol shall enter into force on the

first day of the second month following the date of the deposit by such State of its instrument of ratification,

acceptance, approval or accession.

3. As soon as this Protocol enters into force, it shall be registered with the United Nations by the Depositary.

Article XXIV

1. Any State Party may denounce this Protocol by written notification to the Depositary.

2. Denunciation shall take effect one year following the date on which notification is received by the Depositary.

Article XXV

The Depositary shall promptly inform all States Parties to this Protocol and all signatory or acceding States to

this Protocol of the date of each signature, the date of deposit of each instrument of ratification, acceptance,

approval or accession, the date of coming into force of this Protocol, and other relevant information.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned Plenipotentiaries, having been duly authorized, have signed this

Protocol.

DONE at Beijing on the tenth day of September of the year Two Thousand and Ten in the English, Arabic,

Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish languages, all texts being equally authentic, such authenticity to take

effect upon verification by the Secretariat of the Conference under the authority of the President of the Conference

within ninety days hereof as to the conformity of the texts with one another. This Protocol shall remain deposited

in the archives of the International Civil Aviation Organization, and certified copies thereof shall be transmitted

by the Depositary to all Contracting States to this Protocol.