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[p.106]
The President of the International Court of Justice,
having regard to Article 48 of the Statute of the Court,
having regard to Article 37 of the Rules of Court,
having regard to the Application dated May 26th, 1951, deposited and filed
in the Registry on that day, whereby the Government of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, referring to the declarations made by
that Government and by the Imperial Government of Iran accepting the
Optional Clause provided for in Article 36, paragraph 2, of the Statute,
instituted proceedings before the Court against the Iranian Empire in the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company case,
having regard to the Order made by the Court on July 5th, 1951, fixing the
time-limits for the filing of the Memorial and the Counter-Memorial in that
case, and reserving the rest of the procedure for further decision;
Whereas by letter dated August 16th, 1951, the Agent for the Government of
the United Kingdom requested an extension until October 10th, 1951, of the
time-limit for the filing by that Government of the Memorial fixed for
September 3rd, 1951; [p 107]
Decides
to postpone to the following dates the time-limits fixed by the Order of
July 5th, 1951:
for the Memorial of the Government of the United Kingdom, to October 10th,
1951;
for the Counter-Memorial of the Imperial Government of Iran, to January
10th, 1952.
And reserves the rest of the procedure for further decision.
Done in French and English, the French text being authoritative, at the
Peace Palace, The Hague, this twenty-second day of August, one thousand nine
hundred and fifty-one, in three copies, one of which will be placed in the
archives of the Court and the others transmitted to the Government of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and to the Imperial
Government of Iran, respectively.
(Signed) Basdevant,
President.
(Signed) J. F. Lalive,
First Secretary,
Acting Registrar. |
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