Article IX - Signature, accession and ratification of the Treaty (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, UN)
Definition
- This Treaty shall be open to all States for signature. Any State which
does not sign the Treaty before its entry into force in accordance with
paragraph 3 of this Article may accede to it at any time.
- This Treaty shall be subject to ratification by signatory States.
Instruments of ratification and instruments of accession shall be
deposited with the Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the
United States of America, which are hereby designated the Depositary
Governments.
- This Treaty shall enter into force after its ratification by the
States, the Governments of which are designated Depositaries of the
Treaty, and forty other States signatory to this Treaty and the deposit
of their instruments of ratification. For the purposes of this Treaty, a
nuclear-weapon State is one which has manufactured and exploded a
nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device prior to 1 January
1967.
- For States whose instruments of ratification or accession are deposited
subsequent to the entry into force of this Treaty, it shall enter into
force on the date of the deposit of their instruments of ratification or
accession.
- The Depositary Governments shall promptly inform all signatory and
acceding States of the date of each signature, the date of deposit of
each instrument of ratification or of accession, the date of the entry
into force of this Treaty, and the date of receipt of any requests for
convening a conference or other notices.
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This Treaty shall be registered by the Depositary Governments pursuant
to Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.
Related terms:
Sibling terms:
- Preamble (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, UN)
- Article I - Ban on transfers from nuclear-weapon State Parties (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, UN)
- Article II - Ban on transfers to non-nuclear-weapon State Parties (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, UN)
- Article III - Safeguards (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, UN)
- Article IV - Permission to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, UN)
- Article V - Making available benefits of peaceful applications of nuclear research (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, UN)
- Article VI - Cessation of the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, UN)
- Article VII - Conclusion of regional treaties concerning nuclear disarmament (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, UN)
- Article VIII - Amendment proposal and review of the Treaty (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, UN)
- Article X - Withdrawal from the Treaty (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, UN)
- Article XI - Closing protocol (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, UN)
