# Submarine Telegraph Act 1885, Part ARTICLE XVI


The present Convention shall be brought into force on a day to be agreed upon by the High Contracting Powers.
It shall remain in force for five years from that day, and unless any of the High Contracting Parties have announced, twelve months before the expiration of the said period of five years, its intention to terminate its operation, it shall continue in force for a period of one year, and so on from year to year.
If one of the Signatory Powers denounce the Convention, such denunciation shall have effect only as regards that Power.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/48-49/49/schedule/part/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/submarine-telegraph-act-1885/schedule/part-16
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