Page:Convention on International Civil Aviation - 1944.djvu/47

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its resolution recommending adoption may provide that any State which has not ratified within a specified period after the amendment has come into force shall thereupon cease to be a member of the Organization and a party to the Convention.

Article 95

Denunciation of Convention (a) Any contracting State may give notice of denunciation of this Conventlon three years after its coming into effect by notification addressed to the Government of the United States of America, which shall at once inform each of the contracting States.

(b) Denunciation shall take effect one year from the date of the receipt of the notification and shall operate only as regards the State effecting the denunciation.

CHAPTER XXII

DEFINITIONS

Article 96

For the purpose of this Convention the expresion:

(a) "Air service" means any scheduled air service performed by aircraft for the public transport of passengers, mall or cargo.

(b) "International air service" means an air service which passes through the air space over the territory of more than one State.

(c) "Airline" means any air transport enterprise offering or operating an international air service.