Article 36
Territorial application clause
1. Any State may, at the time of signature, ratification or accession, declare
that this Convention shall extend to all or any of the territories for the
international relations of which it is responsible. Such a declaration shall take
effect when the Convention enters into force for the State concerned.
2. At any time thereafter any such extension shall be made by notification
addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and shall take
effect as from the ninetieth day after the day of receipt by the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations of this notification, or as from the date of entry
into force of the Convention for the State concerned, whichever is the later.
3. With respect to those territories to which this Convention is not extended
at the time of signature, ratification or accession, each State concerned shall
consider the possibility of taking the necessary steps in order to extend the
application of this Convention to such territories, subject, where necessary for
constitutional reasons, to the consent of the Governments of such territories.
Article 37
Federal clause
In the case of a Federal or non-unitary State, the following provisions shall
apply:
(a) With respect to those articles of this Convention that come within the
legislative jurisdiction of the federal legislative authority, the obligations
of the Federal Government shall to this extent be the same as those of
Parties which are not Federal States;
(b) With respect to those articles of this Convention that come within the
legislative jurisdiction of constituent States, provinces or cantons which
are not, under the constitutional system of the Federation, bound to
take legislative action, the Federal Government shall bring such articles
with a favourable recommendation to the notice of the appropriate
authorities of States, provinces or cantons at the earliest possible
moment;
(c) A Federal State Party to this Convention shall, at the request of any
other Contracting State transmitted through the Secretary-General of
the United Nations, supply a statement of the law and practice of the
Federation and its constituent units in regard to any particular provision
of the Convention showing the extent to which effect has been given to
that provision by legislative or other action.
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