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1 Amendments to the Rules of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, as Adopted by the Tribunal on 15 March 2001 [i] (2001)

handle is hein.unl/amruts0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES OF THE
INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE LAW OF THE SEA
as adopted by the Tribunal on 15 March 2001
The Tribunal,
Acting pursuant to article 16 of the Statute of the International Tribunal for the
Law of the Sea, Annex VI to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the
Sea,
Adopts the following amendments to the Rules of the Tribunal of
28 October 1997:
(i)  in article 111, paragraph 4, for the words and the figure no later
than 24 hours, the words and the figure as soon as possible but not later
than 96 hours shall be substituted;
(ii) in article 112, paragraph 3, for the words but not exceeding ten days
from the date of receipt of the application, the words and the figure within a
period of 15 days commencing with the first working day following the date on
which the application is received shall be substituted;
(iii)  in article 112, paragraph 4, for the word ten, the figure 14 shall be
substituted.
Decides that these amendments enter into force forthwith.
Done in English and in French, both texts being authoritative, in the
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, this fifteenth day of March, two
thousand and one.
P. CHANDRASEKHARA RAO,
President.
GRITAKUMAR E. CHITTY,
Registrar.