For the purposes of this Convention, the act by which a person declares to be the father of a natural child shall be designated by the words "recognition with filiation" or by the words "recognition without filiation", as this statement tends to Whether or not to establish a legal relationship of filiation between the person who subscribes and the natural child who is the object of the relationship.

In the territory of the Contracting States whose legislation provides only for recognition without filiation, nationals of other Contracting States, whose legislation provides for recognition with filiation, are entitled to subscribe Parentage recognition.

In the territory of the Contracting States whose legislation provides only for recognition with filiation, nationals of other Contracting States, whose legislation provides for recognition without filiation, are entitled to subscribe a ' Unfiliation recognition.

The declarations provided for in Articles 2 and 3 shall be received by the registrar, or by any other competent authority, in the authentic form determined by the local law, and shall always mention the nationality of which the Declaring. They shall have the same value as if they had been subscribed before the competent authority of the country of the declarant.

Shipments or extracts certified in conformity with the declarations provided for in Articles 2 and 3 and bearing the signature and seal of the authority which issued them shall be exempt from legalization on the territory of the States Contractors.

This Convention shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Swiss Federal Council.

The latter shall notify the Contracting States and the General Secretariat of the International Commission of the Civil State of any deposit of instruments of ratification.

This Convention shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the date of the deposit of the second instrument of ratification, provided for in the preceding Article.

For each signatory State, ratifying subsequently the Convention, the Convention shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the date of the deposit of its instrument of ratification.

This Convention shall apply to the full extent of the metropolitan territory of each Contracting State.

Any Contracting State may, at the time of signature, ratification, accession or later, declare by notification addressed to the Swiss Federal Council that the provisions of this Convention shall apply to one or more of the Its non-metropolitan territories, states or territories whose international relations are provided by it. The Swiss Federal Council will notify each of the Contracting States and the General Secretariat of the International Commission of Civil Affairs of this notification. The provisions of this Convention shall become applicable in the territory or territories designated in the notification on the sixtieth day following the date on which the Swiss Federal Council receives such notification.

Any State which has made a declaration in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2 of this Article, may thereafter declare at any time, by notification addressed to the Swiss Federal Council, that this Convention shall cease to be applicable to One or more of the States or territories designated in the declaration.

The Swiss Federal Council will notify each of the Contracting States and the General Secretariat of the International Civil State Commission of the new notification.

The Convention shall cease to be applicable to the territory concerned, on the sixtieth day following the date on which the Swiss Federal Council receives such notification.

Any Member State of the International Commission of the Civil State may accede to this Convention. The State wishing to accede will notify its intention by an act which will be deposited with the Swiss Federal Council. The latter shall notify each of the Contracting States and the General Secretariat of the International Commission of the Civil State of any deposit of an act of accession. The Convention shall enter into force, for the acceding State, on the thirtieth day after the date of the deposit of the Act of Accession.

The deposit of the Act of Accession may take place only after the entry into force of this Convention.

This Convention may be subject to revision.

The revision proposal will be submitted to the Swiss Federal Council, which will notify it to the various Contracting States and to the General Secretariat of the International Commission of Civil Affairs.

This Convention shall have a duration of ten years from the date specified in Article 7, paragraph 1 ^Er .

The Convention will be renewed tacitly ten years in ten years, except denunciation.

The denunciation shall, at least six months before the expiry of the term, be notified to the Swiss Federal Council, which shall give notice to all the other Contracting States and to the General Secretariat of the International Commission of Civil State.

The denunciation shall have effect only in respect of the State which has notified it. The Convention shall remain in force for the other Contracting States.

In Faith What , the undersigned representatives duly authorised for this purpose have signed this Convention.

Done at Rome, on September 14, 1961, in a single copy which shall be deposited in the archives of the Swiss Federal Council and of which a certified copy shall be furnished by diplomatic means to each of the Contracting States and to the General Secretariat of the International Civil State Commission.

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