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LEGAL ООШ1ТТЕЕ
Additional article proposed by the United Kingdom Delegation to the
"Draft WHO Regulations No.l regarding Nomenclature (including the compilation
and publication of statistics) with respect to diseases and causes of death"
(document A/3)
Article 20 to be followed by Article No,
Each Member to which the present Regulations apply shall bring them to the notice of the Governments of the territories for whose international relations it is responsible, and may at any time notify the Director-General that the Regulations shall extend to any or all of such territories with or without reservations. Before notifying any reservation a Member shall consult with the Director-General with respect to the content and form of and reasons for the proposed reservation» Each Member may
withdraw the whole or any part of such reservations at any time by notifying the Director-General of the Organization,
Drafting changes
The following drafting changes are also proposed in the same document: several of them being in substance the transfer of the foot-noteg into the text of the relevant articles^
Article 1 ,
Insert; "given in the Manual of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death*
after the word " L i s t s " , i , e , before the last five wQrds in the Article,
Add to the end of the Article "The Lists hereinafter mentioned are the Lists set forth in the Annex,"
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Article 3, Delete (l) and. foot-note0
Add to the end of Article; "Each Member shall append to the statistics referred to under (c) and (d) the definition of
"urban" and "rural" areas applied therein,"
Article k.
Substitute; " ( a ) " and " ( b ) " for " ( i ) " and " ( i i ) " , Delete in sixth l i n e : "immediately" after "possible",
Article 6«
Redraft as follows:
Delete all reference numbers to foot-notes and Delete foot-notes (2), ( 3 ) , ( 5 ) ,
Insert in first sentence "either the Intermediate or Detailed List and according to" before "the following sex and age groupings".
Delete " ( c ) ( i ) ( i i )B and " ( d ) " in front of the correspond- ing subdivisions*
Change ( d ) ( i i ) in foot-note (4-) to read: " ( b ) ( i i ) " and Transfer this foot-note into the text to follow the age groups ending with "75 years and over".
Article 6bis (rearrangement of Article 6) Replace the sentence "This age grouping „ , , if published" by:
" I f statistics for administrative subdivisions are published by age the age groupings given under ( b ) ( i i ) of Article 6
shall be used» "
Article 6ter (rearrangement of Article 6) . Include the rest of Article 6 beginning with " I f special
statistics of infant mortality,,,, " and Insert "by age" after
"are published3-,
Article 11
Delete "(Detailed L i s t ) " in third line.
Article 19 Delete first word "SuchM0
Amend second sentence to read: "Before notifying any
reservation to the Director-General of the Organization a Member shall consult with the Director-General with respect
to t h e " , , ,