On the ratification of the International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting of Banknotes and its Protocol

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The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated November 8, 2010 No. 347-IV

To ratify the International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting of Banknotes, done in Geneva on April 20, 1929, and its Protocol with the following reservation: "Within the framework of this International Convention, the Republic of Kazakhstan cooperates with the central bureaus of other States through the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Kazakhstan on mutual legal assistance, criminal prosecution and extradition."

President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N. Nazarbayev

International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting of Banknotes (Geneva, April 20, 1929)

(Bulletin of International Treaties of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2011, No. 2, Article 24) (Entered into force on March 22, 2011)

The official text is in English and French. This Convention and Protocol shall be in force after registration by the Secretariat in accordance with article 28 of the Convention, effective date February 22, 1931.

DEPOSITARY OF RATIFICATIONS: Spain (April 28, 1930) Bulgaria (May 22, 1930) Portugal (September 18, 1930) Yugoslavia (November 24, 1930) Denmark (February 19, 1931)

His Majesty the King of Albania; President of the German Republic; President of the United States of America; Federal President of the Australian Republic;

After the deposit of the instrument of ratification of the International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting of Banknotes, with its Protocol, signed in Geneva on April 20, 1929, His Majesty the King of Denmark and the Islands have the honor, on behalf of my Government, to ratify the Convention with the proviso that the aforementioned Convention and Protocol will enter into force in respect of Denmark only after the entry into force of The Danish Criminal Code entered into force on April 15, 1930. In this regard, I have the honor to note that in accordance with a special law, no later than January 1, 1933, the Criminal Code of the country will be put into effect in accordance with the decree of the Minister of Justice.

Norway (March 16, 1931) Greece (May 19, 1931) Austria (June 25, 1931) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (July 13, 1931) Czechoslovakia (September 12, 1931) Monaco (October 21, 1931) ACCEPTED PARTIES: Estonia (August 30, 1930)

His Majesty the King of the Belgians; His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Possessions beyond the seas, Emperor of India; His Majesty the King of the Bulgarians; President of the National Government of the Republic of China; President of the Republic of Colombia; President of the Republic of Cuba; His Majesty the King of Denmark; President of the Polish Republic, for the free city of Danzig; His Majesty the King of Spain; President of the French President of the Hellenic Republic; His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary; His Majesty the King of Italy; His Majesty the Emperor of Japan; Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg; His Serene Highness the Prince of Monaco; His Majesty the King of Norway; President of the Republic of Panama; Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands; President of the Republic of Poland; President of the Portuguese Republic; His Majesty the King of Romania; His Majesty the King of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; Central Executive Committee of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Swiss Federal Council; The President of the Czecho-Slovak Republic, wishing to make more and more effective the prevention of counterfeiting of banknotes and the fight against it, appointed His Majesty the King of Albania, Dr. Stavro Stavri, Charge d'affaires in Paris; the President of the German Republic, Dr. Erich Kraske, Mission Adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Dr. Wolfgang Mettgenberg, Minister's Adviser in the Reich Ministry of Justice; Dr. Focke, Secret Financial Adviser, member of the Board of the Reichsbank; President of the United States of America - G. Charles R. Wilson, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Federal Council; Federal President of the Republic of Austria - Dr. Bruno Schultz, Director of Police, Head of the Criminal Police Department at the Vienna Police Department; His Majesty the King of the Belgians - G. Servais, Minister of State, Honorary Chief Prosecutor at the Brussels Court of Appeal; His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Possessions beyond the seas, Emperor of India - for Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as for all parts of the British Empire that are not separate members of the League of Nations - Sir John Fisher Williams, British Legal Adviser to the Reparations Commission; Lasley S. Brass, ex., Assistant Director in the Ministry for India - Vernon Dawson, ex., K.I.I., Director in the Ministry of Indian Affairs; His Majesty the King of the Bulgarians - G. D.Mikov, Charge d'affaires in Bern; President of the National Government of the Republic of China - G. Long Liang, Adviser to the Chinese Mission to the President of the German Republic; President of the Republic of Colombia - Dr. Antonio Jose Restrepo, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Permanent Delegate to the League of Nations; President of the Republic of Cuba - G. G. de Blanc and Menocal, Permanent Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary, Permanent Delegate to the League of Nations of the United Nations; Mr. Manuel R. Alvarez, Commercial Attache at the Permanent Delegation to the League of Nations; His Majesty the King of Denmark - William Borberg, Permanent Delegate to the League of Nations; President of the Polish Republic, for the free city of Danzig - Mr. Francis Sokal, Envoy Extraordinary, Delegate of the Polish Republic to the League of Nations; Mr. John Mull, Chief Prosecutor and Chief of the Criminal Police of the free city; His Majesty the King of Spain - Mr. Maurice Lopez Roberts, Marquis de Torregermosa, Extraordinary Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Federal Council; President of the French Republic - Count de Chaland, Financial Attache at the Embassy to His Britannic Majesty; President of the Hellenic Republic - G. Megolos Kaloyanni, Honorary Counselor at the Cairo Supreme Court of Appeal; His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary - G. P. de Gevesi de Geves, Minister Resident, Permanent Delegate to the League of Nations; His Majesty the King of Italy - Commander Dr. Hugo Alloisi, Counselor at the Court of Cassation, assigned to the Ministry of Justice; His Majesty Emperor of Japan - G. Raizaburo Hayashi, Chief Prosecutor of the Cassation Chamber; G. Shigeru Nagai, Director of the Mint; Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg - H. Carl G. Vermeer, Consul in Geneva; His Serene Highness the Prince of Monaco - H. Rodolphe Elles, Vice-Consul in Geneva; His Majesty the King of Norway - H.H.L.Lange, Secretary General of the Interparliamentary Union; President of the Panamanian Republic - Dr. Arosemen, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, Baron AA van der Felts, former Head of the Netherlands Central Bureau for Combating Counterfeiting, former Attorney General at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal; G. P.I.Gehrke, Chief Treasurer of the Finance Department of the Netherlands Indies; G. K.G.Brekgoff, Commissioner of the State Police, Chief Police Inspector; President of the Polish Republic - G. Francis Sokal, Minister Plenipotentiary, Delegate to the League of Nations; Dr. Wlodimierz Sokal, Judge of the Supreme Court; President of the Portuguese Republic - Dr. Jose Caeiro de Matta, Director Of the Portuguese Bank, Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon; His Majesty the King of Romania, Konstantin Antoniade, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the League of Nations; G. Vespasian V. Pella, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Jassy; G. Pascal Tonesco, Lawyer at the Court of Appeal; His Majesty the King of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes - Dr. Thomas Zivanovic, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Belgrade; the Central Executive Committee of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - G. Georgy Lashkevich, Legal Adviser at the Embassy of the Union under the President of the French Republic; Nikolai Lyubimov, Attache of the Embassy of the Union to the President of the French Republic; the Swiss Federal Council - G. E.Delakis, Head of the police Department at the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police, Professor of Law at the University of Bern; the President of the Czechoslovak Republic - Dr. Jaroslav Kallab, Professor of Criminal and International Law at the University of Brno; who, having presented their credentials, having been found in due and proper form, they agreed on the following resolutions:

Part One

Article 1

The High Contracting Parties recognize the rules set out in the first part of this Convention as the most effective means, under existing conditions, to prevent and combat counterfeiting of banknotes.

Article 2

In this Convention, the word "banknotes" means paper money, including bank notes, and a metal coin in circulation by virtue of law.

Article 3

They should be punishable as ordinary criminal offences.: (1) All deceptive actions for the manufacture or modification of banknotes, whatever the method used to achieve this result. (2) Sale of counterfeit banknotes. (3) Actions aimed at selling, importing into the country, or obtaining or obtaining counterfeit banknotes for oneself, provided that their counterfeit nature was known. (4) Attempts to commit these offenses and acts of intentional complicity. (5) Deceptive acts of manufacturing, obtaining, or acquiring for oneself tools or other objects intended by their nature to manufacture counterfeit banknotes or to modify banknotes.

Article 4

Each of the actions provided for in article 3, since they are committed in different countries, should be considered as a separate offense.

Article 5

In relation to punitive measures, no distinction should be made between the actions provided for in article 3, in terms of whether they were committed in relation to national or foreign banknotes; this decision cannot be made subject to any conditions of reciprocity arising from the law or from the contract.

Article 6

Countries that allow the principle of international recidivism recognize, subject to the conditions established by their laws of affiliation, as a circumstance creating this kind of recidivism, foreign court sentences imposed by virtue of committing one of the actions provided for in article 3.

Article 7

To the extent that acting as a civil plaintiff is permitted by domestic law, foreign civil plaintiffs, including, where appropriate, the High Contracting Party whose banknotes were forged, should be able to exercise all rights recognized by local natives under the laws of the country where the court case is being conducted.

Article 8

In countries that do not recognize the principle of extradition of their citizens, their own natives who have returned to their country after committing the acts provided for in article 3 abroad must be punished in the same manner as if the act had been committed on their territory, even in cases where the perpetrator acquired citizenship after committing an offense. This regulation does not apply if the foreigner cannot be extradited in such a case.

Article 9

Foreigners who have committed the acts provided for in article 3 abroad and are located on the territory of a country whose domestic legislation allows as a general rule the principle of bringing to justice for offenses committed abroad must be punished in the same manner as if the act had been committed on the territory of that country. The obligation to bring to justice is conditioned by the fact that extradition has been requested and that the country to which the request is addressed cannot extradite the accused for reasons unrelated to the case.

Article 10

The actions provided for in article 3 are automatically included as the basis for extradition in all extradition treaties concluded or about to be concluded between the various High Contracting Parties. The High Contracting Parties, which do not make extradition conditional on the existence of a treaty or on the condition of reciprocity, henceforth recognize the actions provided for in Article 3 as the basis for extradition between them. Extradition will follow in accordance with the law of the country to which the claim is addressed.

Article 11

Counterfeit banknotes, as well as tools and other items specified in article 3, paragraph 5, must be seized and confiscated. These banknotes, these implements and these objects must, upon confiscation, be transferred, upon appropriate request, either to the government or to the issuing bank, the banknotes in question, with the exception of material evidence, the preservation of which in criminal archives is necessary according to the laws of the country where the persecution took place, as well as samples, the transfer of which to the central bureau, which is discussed in article 12, it would seem useful. In any case, all these items must be made unusable.

Article 12

In each country, inquiries into counterfeiting of banknotes should be conducted within the framework of national legislation by a special central bureau. This central bureau should be in close contact.: (a) with the issuing authorities; (b) with the militia (police) authorities within the country; (c) with the central bureaus of other countries. It should centralize to each country all the information that can facilitate the search for cases of counterfeit banknotes, their prevention and suppression.

Article 13

The central bureaus of different countries should communicate directly with each other.

Article 14

Each central bureau, within the limits where it finds it useful, should hand over to the central bureaus of other countries a collection of authentic perforated samples of their country's banknotes. It will have to regularly inform the foreign central bureaus within the same limits, giving them all the necessary information.: (a) new issues of banknotes produced in his country; (b) withdrawal and cancellation of banknotes. With the exception of cases of purely local importance, each central bureau, to the extent it deems it useful, will have to inform the foreign central bureaus.: (1) On the detection of counterfeit banknotes. A report on the forgery of bank or government banknotes will be accompanied by a technical description of the forgeries, compiled exclusively by the issuing authority whose tickets were forged, and a photographic reproduction or, if possible, a copy of the forged ticket will be provided. In urgent cases, notifications and a brief description from the police authorities may be confidentially communicated to the central bureau concerned, without prejudice to the notifications and technical descriptions mentioned above. (2) About searches, persecutions, arrests, convictions, expulsions of counterfeiters of banknotes, as well as, in necessary cases, about their changes of residence and all sorts of useful information, such as signs, fingerprints and photographs of counterfeiters of banknotes. (3) The details of the detection of forgery, indicating whether these discoveries allowed to capture the entire mass of fakes released into circulation.

Article 15

In order to ensure, improve and develop direct international cooperation in the field of preventing and combating counterfeiting of banknotes, representatives of the central bureaus of the High Contracting Parties should from time to time convene conferences with the participation of representatives of issuing banks and interested central authorities. The organization of the central international information bureau and the monitoring of its activities may be the subject of one of these conferences.

Article 16

The transfer of court orders relating to the offences referred to in article 3 must be carried out: (a) Preferably through direct communication between the judicial authorities or, where possible, through the central bureaus;

_________________________ 1 This concept has the same meaning as a "court order".

(b) By direct correspondence between the Ministers of Justice of both countries or by direct reference by the authority of the country giving the instruction to the Minister of Justice of the country to whom the instruction is given; (c) Through the diplomatic or consular agent of the country giving the instruction in the country to which the instruction is given to the judicial authorities competent in the case, or those who They are indicated by the Government to which the assignment is being given, and will directly receive from these authorities the documents constituting the execution of the court order. In cases (a) and (c), a copy of the court order will have to be simultaneously addressed in all cases to the highest authority of the country to which it is given. In the absence of any other agreement, the court order must be presented in the language of the authority giving the order, and it depends on the country to which the order is given to require its translation into its own language and certified by the authority giving the order. Each of the Contracting Parties shall inform, by notification addressed to each of the other High Contracting Parties, regarding one or those of the above-mentioned methods that it allows for judicial assignments of this High Contracting Party. Until such time as the High Contracting Party makes such a notification, the procedure in force in it with respect to court orders remains in place. The execution of court orders may not serve as a basis for reimbursement of fees or costs other than the costs of the examination. Nothing in this article can be interpreted as forming an obligation on the part of the High Contracting Parties to allow any deviations from their laws in relation to the system of evidence in the criminal field.

Article 17

The participation of one of the High Contracting Parties in this Convention should not be interpreted as prejudicing its position on the general question of the competence of criminal justice as a matter of international law.

Article 18

This Convention leaves untouched the principle that the acts provided for in article 3 must be qualified, prosecuted and tried in each country in accordance with the general rules of its domestic law, but without ensuring impunity for them in any way.

Part two

Article 19

The High Contracting Parties agree that all disputes that may arise between them concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention, if they cannot be resolved by direct negotiations, will be referred to the Permanent Court of Justice of the International Court of Justice. If the High Contracting Parties between whom a dispute has arisen, or one of them, are not parties to the Protocol of December 16, 1920, Regarding the Permanent Court of the International Court of Justice, this disagreement will be referred for resolution, depending on their wishes and in accordance with the constitutional rules of each of them, either to the Permanent Court of the International Court of Justice, or to an arbitration court formed in accordance with the Convention of October 18, 1907 on the peaceful Settlement of International disputes, or to any other arbitration court.

Article 20

This Convention, of which the French and English texts are equally authentic, will be dated on the date of the present day; December 31, 1929. It may be signed on behalf of any member of the League of Nations and any non-member State that will be represented at the conference that drafted this conference, or to which the Council of the League of Nations will transmit a copy of the said convention. This Convention will be ratified. The instruments of ratification will be transmitted to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, who will notify all members of the League, as well as non-member States covered by the previous section, of their receipt.

Article 21

As from January 1, 1930, it will be possible to accede to this Convention on behalf of any member of the League of Nations or any non-member State subject to article 20 on whose behalf this agreement has not yet been signed. The instruments of accession will be transmitted to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, who will notify all members of the League, as well as non-member States subject to the said article, of their receipt.

Article 22

Countries that are disposed to ratify the convention in accordance with the second section of article 20 or to accede to it by virtue of article 21, but which wish to be authorized to make reservations regarding the application of the convention, may notify the Secretary-General of the League of Nations of their intention. The latter will immediately communicate these reservations to all the High Contracting Parties on whose behalf the instrument of ratification or accession has been deposited, asking them if they have any objections. If, within six months from the date of this communication, none of the High Contracting Parties objects, the participation in the convention of the country that has made the specified reservation will be considered as accepted by all other High Contracting Parties under the specified reservation.

Article 23

The ratification or accession of one of the High Contracting Parties to this Convention presupposes that the legislation and its administrative structure comply with the rules set out in the Convention.

Article 24

Unless otherwise declared by the High Contracting Party at the time of signature, ratification or accession, the provisions of the Convention shall not apply to colonies, overseas possessions, protectorates or territories under suzerainty or mandate. However, the High Contracting Parties retain the right to accede to the Convention on the basis of the terms of articles 21 and 23 for their colonies, overseas possessions, protectorates or territories under suzerainty or mandate. They also reserve the right to denounce it separately under the terms of article 27.

Article 25

This Convention will enter into force only when it has been ratified or when it has been acceded to on behalf of the five members of the League of Nations or non-member States. The date of entry into force will be the ninetieth day following the acceptance by the Secretary General of the League of Nations of the fifth ratification or accession.

Article 26

Each ratification or accession that takes place after the entry into force of the convention, in accordance with article 25, will take effect starting on the ninetieth day after the date of their acceptance by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations.

Article 27

This Convention may be denounced on behalf of any member of the League of Nations or any non-member State by a written declaration addressed to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, who will notify all members of the League and non-member States subject to article 20 thereof. The denunciation will take effect one year after the date of its receipt by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations; it will be valid only in respect of the high party on whose behalf it is made.

Article 28

This Convention shall be registered by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations on the date of its entry into force. In witness whereof, the above-named Plenipotentiaries have signed this Convention. Done at Geneva, this twentieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, in a single copy, which shall remain deposited in the archives of the secretariat of the League of Nations, and duly certified copies thereof shall be distributed to all members of the League of Nations and to non-member States subject to article 20.

Albania - Dr. Stavro Stavri Germany - Dr. Eric Kraske, Dr. Wolfgang Matgenberg Vocke USA - Hugh R. Wilson Austria - Dr. Bruno Schultz Belgium - Servais Great Britain and Northern Ireland and all other parts of the British Empire that are not members of the League of Nations - John Fisher Williams, Leslie S. Brass India - according to Article 24 of the Convention, my signature does not include the territories of any Prince or Leader under His Majesty's suzerainty - Vernon Dawson Bulgaria - D. Mikoff China - Lone Layang Colombia - A. J. Restrepo Cuba - J. de Blanc, M.R. Alvarez Denmark - William Borberg The free city of Danzig (German name Gdansk) - F. Sokal, John Mull Spain - Maurizio Lopez Roberts, Marquis de la Torrehermosa France - Calendar Greece - Megalos Kaloyanni Hungary - Paul de Hevesi Italy - Hugo Aloisi Japan - Raizaburo Hayashi, Shigeru Nagai Luxembourg - C. J. Vermeer Monaco - R. Elles Norway: At the time of signing this Convention, the undersigned declare on behalf of their Government that: In accordance with the provisions of article 176, section 2, of the Norwegian General Criminal Code and article 2 of the Norwegian Law on Extradition of Offenders, extradition provided for in article 10 of this Convention may not be permitted for the offence referred to in article 3, section 2, if the person who issues counterfeit banknotes, it received them in good faith - C.L. Lange Panama - J. D. Arosemena Netherlands - A.A. van der Felts, P.J. Gehrke, K.H. Broekhoff Poland - F. Sokal, Wlodzimierz Sokal Portugal - Jose Caero da Mata Romania - Antoniade Vespasien V. Pela, Pascal Tonzesco The Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia - Dr. Tomas Givanovic Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - G. Lachkevich, Nicholas Lyubimov Switzerland - Delaquis Czechoslovakia - Yaroslav Kallab

____________________________________________________________________ Part VI, page 379; Part XI, page 404; Part XV, page 304; Part XXIV, page 152; H. XXVII, page 416; H. XXXIX, page 165; H. XLV, page 96; H. L, page 159; H. LIV, page 387; H. LXIX, page 70; H. LXXII, page 452; H. LXXVIII, page 435; H. LXXXVIII, page 272; H. XCII, page 362; Part XCVI, page 180; Part C, page 153; Part CIV, page 492; Part CVII, page 461; Part CXI, page 402, of this edition. British and Foreign Government Papers, Part 100, page 298.

Protocol

I. Interpretations

At the time of signing the Convention, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries hereby declare that they accept the interpretations set out below with respect to the various provisions of the Convention. It has been established: (1) that the forgery of stamps affixed to a bank note, which should result in giving it legal force in a particular country, constitutes a forgery of the ticket; (2) that the Convention does not prejudice in any way the right of the High Contracting Parties to regulate, in their domestic legislation, as they deem necessary, the regime of mitigation of punishment, as well as the right of pardon and amnesty; (3) that the rule forming the subject of article 4 of the Convention does not entail any change in the internal rules that establish penalties in the case of a combination of crimes. It cannot prevent the same person, who is both a forger and a distributor, from being prosecuted solely as a forger; (4) that the High Contracting Parties are obliged to execute judicial orders only to the extent provided for by their domestic legislation.

__________________________________________________________________ The ratifying parties:

Spain (April 28, 1930); Bulgaria (May 22, 1930); Portugal (September 18, 1930); Yugoslavia (November 4, 1930); Denmark (February 19, 1931); Norway (March 16, 1931); Greece (May 19, 1931); Austria (June 25, 1931); Soviet Socialist Republic (July 13, 1931); Czechoslovakia (September 12, 1931); Monaco (October 21, 1931);

Accepted parties:

Estonia (August 30, 1930)

II. Reservations

The High Contracting Parties that make the reservations set out below shall make their acceptance of the Convention conditional on such acceptance; their participation with these reservations shall be accepted by all other High Contracting Parties. (1) The Government of India makes the reservation that article 9 does not apply to India, where the approval of the rule set forth in this article is outside the function of the legislature. (2) Pending the outcome of negotiations on the abolition of consular jurisdiction enjoyed by citizens of certain Powers, it is impossible for the Chinese Government to accept article 10, which contains the Government's general obligations to agree to the extradition of a foreigner accused of counterfeiting banknotes by a third State. (3) With regard to the provision of article 20, the delegation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics reserves to its Government the right to communicate, if it so wishes, its instrument of ratification to the other signatory State, so that the latter may transmit a copy thereof to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations for notification to all other signatory or acceding States.

III. Declarations

Switzerland

At the time of signing the convention, the representative of Switzerland made the following declaration: "The Swiss Federal Council, which cannot commit itself to the criminal provisions of the convention until the issue of introducing a unified criminal code in Switzerland is positively resolved, notes that the ratification of the convention cannot take place within a certain period of time. However, the Swiss Federal Council is disposed to implement, to the extent of its authority, the administrative provisions of the Convention as soon as the latter enters into force in accordance with article 25."

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

At the time of signing the convention, the representative of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics made the following declaration: "The delegation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, adopting the resolution of Article 19, declares that the Government of the Union does not intend to resort, as far as it concerns, to the jurisdiction of the Permanent Chamber of the International Court of Justice. With regard to the ruling of the same article, according to which disputes that cannot be resolved by direct negotiations would be referred to any arbitration procedure other than an appeal to the Permanent Court of Justice of the International Court of Justice, the delegation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics definitely declares that the adoption of this ruling should not be interpreted as changing the point of view of the Government of the Union on a common issue on the arbitration court as a means of resolving disputes between States." This Protocol, insofar as it creates obligations between the High Contracting Parties, will have the same force, meaning and duration as the convention concluded on this date, and it should be considered as forming an integral part of it. In witness whereof, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have affixed their signatures to this protocol. Done at Geneva, this twentieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, in a single copy, which shall remain deposited in the archives of the secretariat of the League of Nations.; Duly certified copies of it will be issued to all members of the League of Nations and to all non-member States represented at the conference. Albania - Dr. Stavro Stavri Germany - Dr. Eric Kraske, Dr. Wolfgang Matgenberg Vocke USA - Hugh R. Wilson Austria - Dr. Bruno Schultz Belgium - Servais Great Britain and Northern Ireland and all other parts of the British Empire that are not members of the League of Nations - John Fisher Williams, Leslie S. Brass India - Vernon Dawson Bulgaria - D. Mikoff China - Lone Layang Colombia - A. J. Restrepo Cuba - J. de Blanc, M.R. Alvarez Denmark - William Borberg The free city of Danzig - F. Sokal, John Mull Spain - Maurizio Lopez Roberts, Marquis de la Torrehermosa France - Calendar Greece - Megalos Kaloyanni Hungary - Paul de Hevesi Italy - Hugo Aloisi Japan - Raizaburo Hayashi, Shigeru Nagai Luxembourg - C. J. Vermeer Monaco - R. Elles Norway - C. L. Lange Panama - J. D. Arosemena Netherlands - A.A. van der Felts, P.J. Gehrke, K.H. Broekhoff Poland - F. Sokal, Wlodzimierz Sokal Portugal - Jose Caero da Mata Romania - Antoniade Vespasien V. Sang by Pascal Tonzesco The Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia - Dr. Tomas Givanovic Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - G. Lachkevich, Nicholas Lyubimov Switzerland - Delaquis Czechoslovakia - Yaroslav Kallab

AUSTRIA, BULGARIA, COLOMBIA, CUBA, SPAIN, etc. The original protocol on combating counterfeiting of banknotes. Signed in Geneva on April 20, 1929.

PROTOCOL ON COMBATING COUNTERFEITING OF BANKNOTES. SIGNED IN GENEVA ON APRIL 20, 1929.

Recognizing the significant progress made in the fight against counterfeiting of banknotes, which has been carried out in accordance with the Convention on Combating Counterfeiting of Banknotes, to date, the High Contracting Parties that have signed this Protocol, by ratifying, undertake in their mutual relations to consider the issue of extradition of the acts referred to in Article 3 of the said Convention. Conventions as ordinary crimes. Extradition must be carried out in accordance with the legislation of the country in which such an application is submitted. The provisions of Part II of the said Convention apply equally to this Protocol, with the exception of the following provisions:

(1) This Protocol may be signed in accordance with article 20 of the Convention on behalf of a member State of the League of Nations and any non-member States that were represented at the conference and which have signed or are about to sign, or to which a copy of the said Convention has been sent by the Council of the League of Nations. _________________________________________________________________ Entry into force on August 30, 1929. DEPOSITARY OF RATIFICATIONS: Spain (April 28, 1930) Bulgaria (May 22, 1930) Portugal (September 18, 1930) Yugoslavia (November 24, 1930) Greece (May 19, 1931) Austria (June 25, 1931) Czechoslovakia (September 12, 1931) ACCEPTED PARTIES: Estonia (August 30, 1930)

(2) This Protocol shall enter into force upon ratification or accession on behalf of three Members of the League of Nations or States that are not Parties. (3) The ratification or acceptance of this Protocol does not apply to the ratification or acceptance of the Convention.

In confirmation of the following authorized representatives, this Protocol was signed.

Done at Geneva, in one copy, on the twentieth of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine.

Austria - Bruno Schultz Colombia - A.J. Restpero Cuba - J. de Blanc, M.R. Alvarez Greece - Megalos Kaloyani Portugal - Jose Caero da Mata Romania - Antoniade, Vespasien V. Pela, Pascal Tonzesco Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia - Dr. Tomas Giovanovic Czechoslovakia - Jaroslav Kallab Panama - J. D. Arosemena Bulgaria - D. Mikoff Spain - Maurizio lopez Roberte, Marquez de la Torrehermosa Poland - F. Sokal

I hereby certify that the text of the International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting of Banknotes in Russian corresponds to the text in English.

Deputy Chairman Agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Combating Economic and Corruption Crimes (financial police) A. Lukin

The RCPI's note. The following is the text of the International Convention in English.

President

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