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ARTICLE-7: Exemption from reciprocity     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 3. Each Contracting State shall continue to accord to refugees the rights and benefits to which they were already entitled, in the absence of reciprocity, at the date of entry into force of this Convention for that State. ...


ARTICLE-10: Continuity of residence     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 2. Where a refugee has been forcibly displaced during the Second World War from the territory of a Contracting State and has, prior to the date of entry into force of this Convention, returned there for the purpose of taking up residence, the period of residence before and after such enforced displacement shall be regarded as one uninterrupted period for any purposes for which uninterrupted residence is required. ...


ARTICLE-17: Wage-earning employment     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 2. In any case, restrictive measures imposed on aliens or the employment of aliens for the protection of the national labour market shall not be applied to a refugee who was already exempt from them at the date of entry into force of this Convention for the Contracting State concerned, or who fulfils one of the following conditions: ...


ARTICLE-24: Labour legislation and social security     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 4. The Contracting States will give sympathetic consideration to extending to refugees so far as possible the benefits of similar agreements which may at any time be in force between such Contracting States and non- contracting States. ...


ARTICLE-35: Co-operation of the national authorities with the United Nations     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (c) Laws, regulations and decrees which are, or may hereafter be, in force relating to refugees. ...


ARTICLE-40: Territorial application clause     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. Any State may, at the time of signature, ratification or accession, declare that this Convention shall extend to all or any of the territories for the international relations of which it is responsible. Such a declaration shall take effect when the Convention enters into force for the State concerned. ...
... 2. At any time thereafter any such extension shall be made by notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and shall take effect as from the ninetieth day after the day of receipt by the Secretary- General of the United Nations of this notification, or as from the date of entry into force of the Convention for the State concerned, whichever is the later. ...


ARTICLE-43: Entry into force     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Entry into force ...
... 1. This Convention shall come into force on the ninetieth day following the day of deposit of the sixth instrument of ratification or accession. ...
... 2. For each State ratifying or acceding to the Convention after the deposit of the sixth instrument of ratification or accession, the Convention shall enter into force on the ninetieth day following the date of deposit by such State of its instrument of ratification or accession. ...


ARTICLE-46: Notifications by the Secretary-General of the United Nations     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (e) Of the date on which this Convention will come into force in accordance with article 43; ...