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- Where, after the authentication of the text of a treaty, the signatory States and the contracting States are agreed that it contains an error, the error shall, unless they decide upon some other means of correction, be corrected:
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- (a)by having the appropriate correction made in the text and causing the correction to be initialled by duly authorized representatives;
- (b)by executing or exchanging an instrument or instruments setting out the correction which it has been agreed to make; or
- (c)by executing a corrected text of the whole treaty by the same procedure as in the case of the original text.
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- Where the treaty is one for which there is a depositary, the latter shall notify the signatory States and the contracting States of the error and of the proposal to correct it and shall specify an appropriate time-limit within which objection to the proposed correction may be raised. If, on the expiry of the time-limit:
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- (a)no objection has been raised, the depositary shall make and initial the correction in the text and shall execute a procès-verbal of the rectification of the text and commute a copy of it to the parties and to the States entitled to become parties to the treaty;
- (b)an objection has been raised, the depositary shall communicate the objection to the signatory States and to the contracting States.
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- The rules in paragraphs 1 and 2 apply also where the text has been authenticated in two or more languages and it appears that there is a lack of concordance which the signatory States and the contracting States agree should be corrected.
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- The corrected text replaces the defective text ab initio, unless the signatory States and the contracting States otherwise decide.
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- The correction of the text of a treaty that has been registered shall be notified to the Secretariat of the United Nations.
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- Where an error is discovered in a certified copy of a treaty, the depositary shall execute a procès-verbal specifying the rectification and communicate a copy of it to the signatory States and to the contracting States.
