Australian Treaty Series

THE TWELFTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY,

CONSIDERING the proposal made by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning the increase of the number of persons designated to serve on the Executive Board;

HAVING EXAMINED the text of the amendments to Articles 24 and 25 of the Constitution communicated by the Director-General to Member States on 3 November 1958;

NOTING that the provisions of Article 73 of the Constitution, which requires that proposed amendments to the Constitution shall be communicated to Members at least six months before consideration by the Health Assembly, has been duly complied with;

1. ADOPTS the amendments to the Constitution set forth in the Annexes to this Resolution, and which shall form an integral part of this Resolution, the texts in the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish languages being equally authentic.

2. DECIDES that two copies of this Resolution shall be authenticated by the signatures of the President of the Twelfth World Health Assembly and the Director-General of the World Health Organization, of which one copy shall be transmitted to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, depositary of the Constitution, and one copy retained in the archives of the World Health Organization.

3. FURTHER DECIDES that acceptance of the amendments to the Constitution set forth in this Resolution under Article 73 of the Constitution, shall be effected by the deposit of a formal instrument with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.[2]

IN FAITH WHEREOF we have appended our signatures hereto.

DONE at Geneva this twenty-eighth day of May 1959 in two copies.

President of the Director-General of the

Twelfth World Health Assembly: World Health Organization:

[Signed:] [Signed:]

JOHN A CHARLES M G CANDAU

ENGLISH TEXT

In Article 24 substitute the word "twenty-four" for the word "eighteen";

Delete the whole of Article 25 and replace by:

"These Members shall be elected for three years and may be re-elected, provided that of the twelve Members elected at the first session of the Health Assembly held after the coming into force of the amendment to this Constitution increasing the membership of the Board from eighteen to twenty-four the terms of two Members shall be for one year and the terms of two Members shall be for two years, as determined by lot." [1] Adopted pursuant to Resolution WHA12.43 at the 11th plenary meeting of the Twelfth World Health Assembly.

[2] Instrument of acceptance deposited for Australia 12 August 1959. The Amendments entered into force for Australia and generally 25 October 1960.

[3] Annex A (Chinese language text), Annex C (French language text), Annex D (Russian language text) and Annex E (Spanish language text) not reproduced here.