PROTOCOL OF SIGNATURES OF THE STATUTE OF THE PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE

Geneva, December 16, 1920

The Members of the League of Nations, through the undersigned, duly authorized, declare their acceptance of the adjoined Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, which was approved by a unanimous vote of the Assembly of the League on the 13th of December, 1920, at Geneva.
Consequently, they hereby declare that they accept the jurisdiction of the Court in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions of the abovementioned Statute.

The Present Protocol, which has been drawn up in accordance with the decision taken by the Assembly of the League of Nations on the 13th December, 1920, is subject to ratification. Each Power shall send its ratification to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations; the latter shall take the necessary steps to notify such ratification to the other signatory Powers. The ratification shall be deposited in the archives of the Secretariat of the League of Nations.

The said Protocol shall remain open for signature by the Members of the League of Nations and by the States mentioned in the Annex to the Covenant of the League.

The Statute of the Court shall come into force as provided in the above mentioned decision.

Executed at Geneva, in a single copy, the French and English texts of which shall both be authentic.

December 16th, 1920

Signature and Ratification of the Protocol of Signature of December 16, 1920