Artical 54
1. Any State may, at the time of signing this Convention or of depositing its
instrument of ratification or accession, declare that it does not consider
itself bound by Article 52 of this Convention.
Other Contracting Parties shall not be bound by Article
52 with respect to any Contracting Party which has made such a declaration.
2. At the time of depositing its instrument of ratification or accession, any
State may, by notification addressed to the Secretary-General, declare that for
the purposes of the application of the Convention it treats mopeds as
motorcycles (Article 1 (n)). By notification addressed to the Secretary-General,
any State may subsequently at any time withdraw its declaration.
3. The declarations provided for in paragraph 2 of this Article shall become
effective six months after the date of receipt by the Secretary-General of
notification of them or on the date on which the Convention enters into force
for the State making the declaration, whichever is the later.
4. Any modification of a previously selected distinguishing sign notified in
conformity with Article 45, paragraph 4, or
Article 46, paragraph 3 of this Convention, shall
take effect three months after the date on which the Secretary-General receives
notification thereof.
5. Reservations to this Convention and its annexes, other than the reservation
provided for in paragraph 1 of this Article, shall be permitted on condition
that they are formulated in writing and, if formulated before the deposit of the
instrument of ratification or accession, are confirmed in that instrument. The
Secretary-General shall communicate such reservations to all States referred to
in Article 45, paragraph 1, of this Convention.
6. Any Contracting Party which has formulated a reservation or made a
declaration under paragraphs 1 or 4 of this Article may withdraw it at any time
by notification addressed to the Secretary-General.
7. A reservation made in accordance with paragraph 5 of this Article:
(a) Modifies for the Contracting Party which made the reservation the
provisions of the Convention to which the reservation relates, to the extent of
the reservation;
(b) Modifies those provisions to the same extent for the other Contracting
Parties in their relations with the Contracting Party which entered the
reservation.
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