THE ASSEMBLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION 

Having Met in its Twenty-first Session, at Montreal on 14 October 1974,
Having noted that it is the general desire of Contracting States to enlarge the membership of Council,
Having Considered it proper to provide for three additional seats in the Council, and accordingly to increase the membership from thirty-three, in order to permit an increase in the representation of States elected in the second, and particulary the third, part of the election, and Having Concidered it necessary to amend, for the purpose aforesaid, the Convention on International Civil Aviation done at Chicago on the Seventh day of December 1944

(1) Approved, in accordance with the provisons of Article 94 (a) of the Convention aforsaid, the following proposed amemdment to the said Convention:

In Article 50 (a) of the Convention the seconde sentence

shall be amended by replacing "thirty" by "thirty-three"



(2) Specified, pursuant to the provisions of the said Article 94

(a) of the said Convention, eighty-six as the number of

Contracting States upon whose ratification the proposed

amendment afrosaid shal come into force, and



(3) Resolved that the Secretary General of the Internatio-

nal Civil Aviation Organization draw up a Protocol, in the

English, French and Spanish languages, each of which shall

be of equal authenticity, embodying the proposed amendment

above-mentioned and the matter hereinafter appearing:

(a) The Protocol shall be signed by the President of the

Assembly and its Secretary General.

(b) The Protocol shall be open to ratification by any State

whish has ratified or adhered to the said Convention on

International Civil Aviation.

(c)The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with

the International Civil Organization.

(d) The Protocol shall come into force in respect of the

States which have ratified it on the date on which the

eighty-Sixty instrument of ratification is so deposited.

(e) The Secretary General shall immediately notify all

Contracting States of the date of deposit of each ratifi-

cation of the Protocol.

(f) The Secretary General shall immediately notify all

States parties to the said Convention of the date on which

the Protocol comes into force.

(g)With respect to any Contracting State ratifying the

Protocol after the date aforesaid the Protocol shall come

into force upon deposit of its instrument of ratification

with the International Civil Aviation Organization.

Consequently, pursuant to the aforesaid action of the

Assembly,

This Protocol has been drawn up by the Secretary General

of the Organization;

In Witness Whereof, the President and the Secretary

General of the Twenty-first Session of the Assembly of the

International Civil Aviation Organization, being authorized

thereto by the Assembly, sign this Protocol.



Done at Montreal on the sixteenth day of october of the

year one

thousand nine hundred and seventy-four, in a single docu-

ment in the English, French and Spanish languages, each of

which shall be of equal authenticity. This Protocol shall

remain deposited in the archives of the International

Civil Aviation Organization, and certified copies thereof

Shall be transmitted by the Secretary General of the Orga-

nization to all States parties to the Convention on Inter-

national Civil Aviation done at Chicago on the seventh day

of December 1944.



Walter Binaghi

President of the Assembly

Assad Kotaite

Secretary General

Certified to be a true and conformed to legal Bureau