مجموعة ٢٠/ ٣ (٢) "مسقط: العلاقات مع الحكومة البريطانية؛ مراجعة المعاهدة التجارية" [و‎‎٥‎٣] (١٣٢٤/١١٠)

aircraft registered in the United Kingdom etc. end perhaps
also to the nationals, ships and aircraft of other members of
the Commonwealth who accede under the accession clause and
aslt that the provisions of the treaty should be reconsidered
accordingly.
In fact however the draft treaty will not apply to goods
of Union origin unless the Union accede under the accession
clause. All the articles relating to goods (vide, X*or example
Article 5) refer to goods produced or manufactured in the
territories of His laiesty and by virtue of the definition of
the expression * territories of His Majesty* in Article l(1)
this would not cover the Union unless the Union acceded.
Further it is not true to say that the accession clause is rare
in bilateral treaties unless the reference is to bilateral
treaties concluded by foreign countries. This accession clause
has been included in almost every commercial, extradition,
civil procedure convention concluded recently by this country
which must amount in all to some hundred treaties as well as
certain other treaties concluded by the United Kingdom*
amongst the articles referred to by the Union Government
in the Muscat Treaty are Articles 1, 20 and 21. These
articles are in the standard form approved by the Imperial
Conference in which the Union of South Africa participated and
in which the Imperial Conference, including the Union of South
Africa, specifically wished and desired the Government of the
United Kingdom to insert such clause© and to stipulate for
benefits for ©11 British subjects end all British ships in
treaties concluded by the United Kingdom. Consequently the
United Kingdom has since consistently done so end there has
been no indication up till this moment of any disagreement by
the Union Government with this policy and we i eel that the
Union Government cannot now expect us to change the terms of
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