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![handle is hein.nccusl/nccpub00968 and id is 1 raw text is: United Nations Convention on the Assignment
of Receivables in International Trade
CHAPTER VI. FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 33. Depositary
The Secretary-General of the United Nations is the depositary of this Convention.
Article 34. Signature, ratification, acceptance,
approval, accession
1. This Convention is open for signature by all States at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New
York until 31 December 2003.
2. This Convention is subject to ratification, acceptance or approval by the signatory States.
3. This Convention is open to accession by all States that are not signatory States as from the date it
is open for signature.
4. Instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval and accession are to be deposited with the Secretary-
General of the United Nations.
Article 35. Application to territorial units
1. If a State has two or more territorial units in which different systems of law are applicable in relation to
the matters dealt with in this Convention, it may at any time declare that this Convention is to extend to all its
territorial units or only one or more of them, and may at any time substitute another declaration for its earlier
declaration.
2. Such declarations are to state expressly the territorial units to which this Convention extends.
3. If, by virtue of a declaration under this article, this Convention does not extend to all territorial units of a
State and the assignor or the debtor is located in a territorial unit to which this Convention does not extend, this
location is considered not to be in a Contracting State.
4. If, by virtue of a declaration under this article, this Convention does not extend to all territorial units of a
State and the law governing the original contract is the law in force in a territorial unit to which this Convention does
not extend, the law governing the original contract is considered not to be the law of a Contracting State.
5. If a State makes no declaration under paragraph 1 of this article, the Convention is to extend to all
territorial units of that State.
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