1884 Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables

1884 Cable Convention

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Government of the French Republic

Additional Article (British Colonies and Possession)

Declaration, Explanatory of Articles II and IV, of the Plenipotentiaries of the Signatory Governments of the Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables of 14 March 1884

Protocol, Respecting the Date on which the Convention should be Put into Force, Signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the Signatory Governments of the Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables of 14 March 1884

01/05/1888

Article XVI:

“The present Convention shall be brought into force on a day to be agreed upon by the High Contracting Powers.

It shall remain in force for five years from that day, and unless any of the High Contracting Parties have announced, 12 months before the expiration of the said period of five years, its intention to terminate its operation, it shall continue in force for a period of one year, and so on from year to year.”

1958 Convention on the Continental Shelf

1958 Convention on the High Seas

1972 Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea

1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

International Cable Protection Committee accessed on 09/07/2024