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The Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia Mr. Luke DANCE VIC, Director—Directorate of Shipping, Split. Who, having communicated their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows : Article I (a) The Contracting Governments undertake to give effect to the provisions of the present Convention and of the regulations annexed thereto, which shall be deemed to constitute an integral part of the present Convention. Every reference to the present Convention implies at the same time a reference to these regulations. (b) The Contracting Governments undertake to promulgate all laws, decrees, orders and regulations and to take all other steps which may be necessary to give the present Convention full and complete effect, so as to ensure that, from the point of view of safety of life, a ship is fit for the service for which it is intended. Article II The ships to which the present Convention applies are ships registered in countries the Governments of which are Contracting Governments, and ships registered in territories to which the present Convention is extended under Article XIII. Article 111 Laws, Regulations, Reports The Contracting Governments undertake to communicate to the Inter-governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (hereinafter called the Organization)— (a) the text of laws, decrees, orders and regulations which shall have been promulgated on the various matters within the scope of the present Convention ; (b) all available official reports or official summaries of reports in so far as they show the results of the provisions of the present Convention, provided always that such reports or summaries are not of a confidential nature ; and (c) a sufficient number of specimens of their Certificates issued under the provisions of the present Convention for circulation to the Contracting Governments for the information of their officers. Article IV Cases of Force Majeure (a) No ship, which is not subject to the provisions of the present Convention at the time of its departure on any voyage, shall become subject to the provisions of the present Convention on account of any deviation from its intended voyage due to stress of weather or any other cause of force majeure. (b) Persons who are on board a ship by reason of force majeure or in consequence of the obligation laid upon the master to carry shipwrecked or other persons shall not be taken into account for the purpose of ascertaining the application to a ship of any provisions of the present Convention.

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