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Rijkswet of 28 April 2005 approving the Protocol to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damaged 1992, 1992, to be adopted on 16 May 2003 in London
We Beatrix, at the grace of God, Queen of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, etc. etc. etc.
All of them, who will see or hear these, saluut! do know:
In this regard, we considered that the Protocol to the International Convention on the establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1992, was established in London on 16 May 2003, By Article 91, first paragraph, of the Constitution the approval of the States-General need to be approved before the Kingdom can be bound by it;
It is true that we, the Council of State of the Kingdom, and with the common accord of the States-General, have taken into account the provisions of the Statute for the Kingdom, have been deemed to have been approved and understood to be the same as This:
The Protocol to the International Convention on the establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage 1992, 1992, of which the English and French texts and the French translation into Dutch in Tractatenblad 2004, 196, is approved for the whole Kingdom.
Adjustments to the compensation limit of the Protocol established in accordance with Article 24 of the Protocol shall not be subject to the approval of the States General.
Under Application of Article 16 of the Temporary Referendum Act this state law shall enter into force as from the day following the date of issuance of the Official Gazette in which it is placed.
Charges and orders that it will be placed in the Official Journal of the Netherlands Antilles and in the Gazette of Aruba, and that all ministries, authorities, colleges and officials, who so concern, to the accurate Carry out the hand.
Given at The Hague, 28 April 2005
Beatrix
The Minister of Justice,
J. P. H. Donner
The Minister for Foreign Affairs,
B. R. Bot
The Minister for Economic Affairs,
L. J. Brinkhorst
The Minister of Transport and Water,
K. M. H. Peijs
Issued the fourteenth of June 2005The Minister of Justice,
J. P. H. Donner
