Article 15
In the event of one of the contracting States wishing to denounce the present Convention, the denunciation shall be notified in writing to the Belgian Government, which shall immediately
communicate a duly certified copy of the notification to all the other States, informing them of the date on which it was received.
The denunciation shall only operate in respect of the State which made the notification, and on the expiry of one year after the notification has reached the Belgian Government.
第十五条
如有缔约国欲退出本公约，应用书面通知比利时政府，比利时政府立即将核证无误的通知副本分送其他国家，并注明其收到上述通知的日期。
这种退出只对提出通知的国家有效，生效日期从上述通知送达比利时政府之日起一年以后开始。
Article 16
Any one of the contracting States shall have the right to call for a fresh conference with a view to considering possible amendments.
A State which would exercise this right should notify its intention to the other States through the Belgian Government, which would make arrangements for convening the Conference. DONE at Brussels, in a single copy, August 25th, 1924.
第十六条
任何一个缔约国都有权就考虑修改本公约事项，请求召开新的会议。
欲行使此项权利的国家，应通过比利时政府将其意图通知其他国家，由比利时政府安排召开会议事宜。
一九二四年八月二十五日订于布鲁塞尔，计一份。
PROTOCOL OF SIGNATURE
At the time of signing the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law relating to Bills of Lading the Plenipotentiaries whose signatures appear below have adopted this Protocol, which will have the same force and the same value as if its provisions were inserted in the text of the Convention to which it relates.
The High Contracting Parties may give effect to this Convention either by giving it the force of law or by including in their national legislation in a form appropriate to that legislation the rules adopted under this Convention.
They may reserve the right:
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1. To prescribe that in the cases referred to in paragraph 2(c) to (p) of Article 4 the holder of a bill of lading shall be entitled to establish responsibility for loss or damage arising from the personal fault of the carrier or the fault of his servants which are not covered by paragraph (a).
2. To apply Article 6 in so far as the national coasting trade is concerned to all classes of goods without taking account of the restriction set out in the last paragraph of that Article. DONE at Brussels, in single copy, August 25th, 1924.
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