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1 Statute of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Annex VI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) [i] (1982)

handle is hein.unl/stintlse0001 and id is 1 raw text is: STATUTE OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE LAW OF THE SEA Article 1 General provisions 1. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is constituted and shall function in accordance with the provisions of this Convention and this Statute. 2. The seat of the Tribunal shall be in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in the Federal Republic of Germany. 3. The Tribunal may sit and exercise its functions elsewhere whenever it considers this desirable. 4. A reference of a dispute to the Tribunal shall be governed by the provisions of Parts XI and XV. SECTION 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE TRIBUNAL Article 2 Composition 1. The Tribunal shall be composed of a body of 21 independent members, elected from among persons enjoying the highest reputation for fairness and integrity and of recognized competence in the field of the law of the sea. 2. In the Tribunal as a whole the representation of the principal legal systems of the world and equitable geographical distribution shall be assured. Article 3 Membership 1. No two members of the Tribunal may be nationals of the same State. A person who for the purposes of membership in the Tribunal could be regarded as a national of more than one State shall be deemed to be a national of the one in which he ordinarily exercises civil and political rights. 2. There shall be no fewer than three members from each geographical group as established by the General Assembly of the United Nations. Article 4 Nominations and elections 1. Each State Party may nominate not more than two persons having the qualifications prescribed in article 2 of this Annex. The members of the Tribunal shall be elected from the list of persons thus nominated. 2. At least three months before the date of the election, the Secretary-General of the United Nations in the case of the first election and the Registrar of the Tribunal in the case of subsequent elections shall address a written invitation to the States Parties to submit their nominations for members of the Tribunal within two months. He shall prepare a list in alphabetical order of all the persons thus nominated, with an indication of the States Parties which have nominated them, and shall submit it to the States Parties before the seventh day of the last month before the date of each election. 3. The first election shall be held within six months of the date of entry into force of this Convention.

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