LEAGUE OF NATIONS - United Nations Treaty Collection

1931 League of Nations - Treaty Series. 97
relating to the r~gime applicable to estates in the frontier zone 1, signed at Bucharest on April i6,
1925, shall remain in force, provided that they are not modified by the present Treaty.
Article XXXIX.
i. Any dispute between the two High Contracting Parties with regard to the interpretation
or application of the present Treaty, of the tariffs and other documents attached thereto, or of
the Final Protocol shall be submitted to a court of arbitration.
2. The court of arbitration shall consist of three members, one of whom shall be appointed
by each of the High Contracting Parties and the third, who shall act as Chairman, nominated jointly
by the two High Contracting Parties, or, in the absence of agreement, by the President of the
Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague.
3. The members of the court of arbitration shall be appointed within thirty days from the
date of the exchange of the instruments of ratification of the present Treaty, for the whole duration
of the Treaty.
4. If a vacancy occurs in the meantime, for any reason, the new member shall be appointed
under the same conditions.
5. The decision of the arbitrators shall be binding.
6. Should one of the High Contracting Parties contest the competence of the court of
arbitration to deal with the question submitted to it, the court shall suspend its deliberations until
the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague has given a decision on the question
of competence and shall only resume consideration of the question submitted to it if the Permanent
Court replies in the affirmative.
Article XL.
i. The present Treaty shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification shall be exchanged
as soon as possible.
2. It shall come into force fifteen days after the exchange of ratifications.
3. The two Governments may, however, arrange to put it into force at an earlier date if their
laws authorise them to do so.
4. The present Treaty shall be valid for three years from the date of its coming into force.
5. If neither of the High Contracting Parties has denounced the Treaty within three months
before the expiration of such period, the present Treaty shall be extended by tacit agreement and
shall remain in force until the expiration of three months from the date of its denouncement.
In faith whereof, the Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and have affixed their
seals thereto.
Done in duplicate, at Strbsk6 Pleso, the twenty-seventh of. June, one thousand nine hundred
and thirty.
Vol. XLVI, page 427, of this Series.
7 No. 2742
(L S.) George G. MIRONESCO, m. P.
(L. S.) Dr Edvard BENE§, m.P.