The High Contracting Parties undertake, to each other, to apply for the solution of the conflicts of laws listed below, in the matter of cheques, the rules indicated in the following articles: ¹

A person's ability to commit by cheque is determined by his or her national law. If this national law declares the law of another country competent, the latter law shall be applied.

The person who is incapable, according to the law indicated by the preceding paragraph, is nevertheless validly held, if the signature was given in the territory of a country according to the legislation of which the person would have been able.

Each of the High Contracting Parties shall have the right not to recognise the validity of the undertaking made in respect of checks by one of its nationals and which would not be valid in the territory of other High Contracting Parties By the application of the preceding paragraph of this Article.

The law of the country where the cheque is payable determines the persons on whom a cheque may be drawn.

If, according to this law, the title is void as a cheque because of the person on which it was drawn, the obligations resulting from the signatures of the person in other countries whose laws do not contain that provision are nevertheless valid.

The form of the cheque commitments is governed by the law of the country in whose territory those commitments have been entered into. However, the observation of the forms prescribed by the law of the place of payment is sufficient.

However, if the commitments entered into on a cheque are not valid according to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, but are in conformity with the legislation of the country in which a subsequent commitment has been made, the fact that the first Commitments are irregular in form does not invalidate the validity of the subsequent commitment.

Each of the High Contracting Parties shall be entitled to prescribe that undertakings made in respect of cheques abroad by one of its nationals shall be valid in respect of another of its nationals on its territory, provided they have Was taken in the form provided for in the national law.

The law of the country in whose territory the obligations resulting from the cheque have been subscribed shall settle the effects of those obligations.

The time limits for the exercise of the action under appeal shall be determined for all signatories by the law of the place of creation of the title.

The law of the country where the cheque is payable determines:

1 °

If the cheque is necessarily on sight or if it can be taken for a certain period of time and also what the post-date effects are,

2 °

The deadline for submission;

3 °

If the cheque can be accepted, certified, confirmed or targeted and what are the effects of such endorsements;

4

If the holder may require and is required to receive a partial payment;

5

If the cheque can be blocked or bear the clause "to be taken into account" or an equivalent expression and what the effects of such a barrement or clause or equivalent expression are;

6 °

If the holder has special rights over the provision and the nature of the provision;

7 °

If the shooter can revoke or oppose the cheque;

8 °

The measures to be taken in the event of loss or theft of the cheque;

9 °

If an equivalent protection or finding is required to retain the right of appeal against the endosensors, the shooter and the other retails.

The form and time limits of the protection, as well as the form of the other acts necessary for the exercise or preservation of the rights in respect of cheques, shall be governed by the law of the country in whose territory the protection or the act is to be drawn up. Question.

Each High Contracting Party reserves the right not to apply the principles of private international law enshrined in this Convention in its capacity as:

1 °

A commitment made outside the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties;

2 °

A law which would be applicable on the basis of these principles and which would not be that of one of the High Contracting Parties.

In the territory of each of the High Contracting Parties, the provisions of this Convention shall not apply to cheques already created at the time of the implementation of this Convention.

This Convention, of which the French and English texts will also be authentic, shall bear the date of that day.

It may be signed later until 15 July 1931 on behalf of any Member of the League of Nations and any non-member State.

This Convention shall be ratified.

Instruments of ratification shall be deposited before 1 ^Er September 1933 to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, who shall immediately notify the Secretary-General of the receipt to all Members of the League of Nations and to the non-member States on behalf of which this Convention has been signed or on behalf of Of which there has been accession.

As of 15 July 1931, any Member of the League of Nations and any non-member State may accede to it.

Such accession shall be effected by notification to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations ¹ To be deposited in the archives of the Secretariat.

The Secretary-General shall notify this deposit immediately to all Members of the League of Nations and to non-member States on behalf of which this Convention has been signed or on whose behalf it has been acceded to.

This Convention shall enter into force only once it has been ratified or acceded to on behalf of seven Members of the League of Nations or non-member States, including three members of the League of Nations Represented on a permanent basis in the Council.

The date of entry into force shall be the ninetieth day after the receipt by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, of the seventh ratification or accession, in accordance with the first paragraph of this article.

The Secretary-General of the League of Nations ¹ By making the notifications provided for in Articles 12 and 13, shall specifically indicate that the ratifications or accessions referred to in the first paragraph of this Article have been collected.

Each ratification or accession following the entry into force of the Convention in accordance with Article 14 shall be effective as from the ninetieth day after the date of its receipt by the Secretary-General of the Society of Nations ¹ .

Except in cases of urgency, this Convention shall not be terminated before the expiration of two years from the date on which it entered into force for that Member of the League of Nations or for that non-member State; Denunciation shall have effect as from the ninetieth day after the receipt by the Secretary-General ¹ Of the notification addressed to him.

Any denunciation shall be communicated immediately by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations to all Members of the League of Nations and to non-member States on behalf of which this Convention has been signed, or on whose behalf it has been Party.

Each denunciation shall have effect only in respect of the Member of the League of Nations or the non-member State on whose behalf it has been made.

Any Member of the League of Nations and any non-member State in respect of which this Convention is in force may address to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations ¹ , upon the expiration of the fourth year following the entry into force of the Convention, an application for the revision of certain or all provisions of that Convention.

If such a request, communicated to other Members or non-member States between which the Convention is then in force, shall be supported within one year by at least six of them, the Council of the League of Nations shall decide whether to Convene a Conference for this purpose.

The High Contracting Parties may, at the time of signature of the ratification or accession, declare that, by their acceptance of this Convention, they do not intend to assume any obligation in respect of the whole or all Part of their colonies, protectorates or territories under their suzerainty or mandate, in this case, this Convention shall not be applicable to the territories subject to such declaration.

The High Contracting Parties may subsequently notify the Secretary-General of the League of Nations ¹ That they intend to make this Convention applicable to all or any part of their territories which have been the subject of the declaration provided for in the preceding paragraph. In this case, the Convention shall apply to the territories referred to in the notification ninety days after the receipt of the latter by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations ² .

Similarly, the High Contracting Parties may at any time declare that they intend that this Convention shall cease to apply to all or any part of their colonies, protectorates or territories under their suzerainty or In this case, the Convention shall cease to be applicable to the territories subject to such declaration one year after the receipt of the latter by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations ³ .

This Convention shall be registered by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations upon entry into force.

In witness whereof, The aforementioned Plenipotentiaries have signed this Convention.

Done at Geneva, on March nineteen thousand nine hundred thirty and one, in simple expedition, which will be deposited in the archives of the Secretariat of the League of Nations ¹ It shall be transmitted to all Members of the League of Nations and to all non-member States represented at the Conference.

(Suivent signatures)