In the event of boarding or any other navigation event concerning a seagoing ship and which is liable to incur the criminal or disciplinary responsibility of the master or any other person in the service of the ship, no further action shall be taken A case brought before the judicial or administrative authorities of the State whose vessel was carrying the flag at the time of the collision or the navigation event.

In the case referred to in the foregoing Article, no seizure or detention of the ship shall be ordered, even for measures of instruction, by authorities other than those whose flag the vessel was carrying.

Nothing in this Convention precludes a State in the case of collision or other navigation event from recognising its own authorities, the right to take any measures relating to certificates of competence and licences which it has Or to prosecute its nationals for offences committed while on board a ship bearing the flag of another State.

This Agreement shall not apply to collisions or other navigation events occurring in ports and rades and in inland waters.

In addition, the High Contracting Parties may, at the time of signature, the deposit of ratifications or upon accession to the Convention, reserve the right to prosecute offences committed in their own waters.

The High Contracting Parties undertake to submit to arbitration all disputes between States which may result from the interpretation or application of this Convention, without prejudice, however, to the obligations of the High Contracting Parties which Agreed to submit their disputes to the International Court of Justice.

This Convention shall be open for signature by the States represented at the Ninth Diplomatic Conference of Maritime Law. The minutes of signature will be drawn up by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium.

This Convention shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, which shall notify it of the deposit to all signatory and acceding States.

The present Convention shall enter into force between the first two States which have ratified it, six months after the date of the deposit of the second instrument of ratification.

B. For each signatory State ratifying the Convention after the second deposit, it shall enter into force six months after the date of the deposit of its instrument of ratification.

Any State not represented at the Ninth Diplomatic Conference of Maritime Law may accede to this Convention.

Accessions will be notified to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, which will notify all signatory and acceding states through diplomatic channels.

The Convention shall enter into force for the acceding State six months after the date of receipt of such notification, but not before the date of its entry into force as set out in Art. 8 A .

Any High Contracting Party may, at the expiration of the three-year period following the entry into force of this Convention, request the meeting of a conference to decide all proposals for the revision of the The Convention.

Any High Contracting Party wishing to avail itself of this option will notify the Belgian Government which will convene the conference within six months.

Each of the High Contracting Parties shall have the right to denounce this Convention at any time after its entry into force. However, such denunciation shall take effect only one year after the date of receipt of the notification of termination to the Government of Belgium, which shall notify the other Contracting Parties through diplomatic channels.

A. Any High Contracting Party may, at the time of ratification, accession, or at any time thereafter, notify in writing to the Government of Belgium that this Convention applies to the territories or to certain territories to which it assures International relations. The Convention shall be applicable to the said Territories six months after the date of receipt of such notification by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, but not before the date of entry into force of this Convention in respect of that High Contracting Party.

B. Any High Contracting Party that has entered into a declaration under this Article may at any time notify the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium that the Convention shall cease to apply to the territory in question. Such denunciation shall take effect within the one-year period laid down in Art. 11.

C. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium shall, through diplomatic channels, notify all signatory States and members of any notification received by it under this Article.

Done at Brussels, in a single copy, on May 10, 1952, in the English and French languages, both texts being equally authentic.

(Suivent signatures)