STATUS

STATUS - CONVENTION PROVIDING A UNIFORM LAW ON THE FORM OF AN INTERNATIONAL WILL

CONVENTION PROVIDING A UNIFORM LAW ON THE FORM OF AN INTERNATIONAL WILL

Adoption: Place: Washington

Date: 26.10.1973

Entry into force: 09.02.1978 (Art. XI)

Contracting States:  13

Depositary: Government of the United States of America

 

State Signature RT / AS EIF D
Australia AS 10.09.2014 10.03.2015
Belgium 17.05.1974 RT 21.04.1983 21.10.1983
Bosnia-Herzegovina * AS 15.08.1994 15.08.1994
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State Entry into force
Alberta 01.06.1978
British Columbia 31.03.2014
Manitoba 02.09.1978
Newfoundland 02.09.1978
New Brunswick 05.12.1997
Nova Scotia 27.05.2001
Ontario 31.03.1978
Prince Edward Island 22.03.1995
Saskatchewan 22.03.1995
Yukon 06.01.2022

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AS 24.01.1977 D: Art. XIV
Croatia * AS 18.05.1994 18.05.1994
Cyprus AS 19.10.1982 19.04.1983
Ecuador 26.07.1974 RT 03.04.1979 03.10.1979 D
France 29.11.1974 RT 01.06.1994 01.12.1994
Holy See 02.11.1973
Iran 27.10.1973
Italy AS 16.05.1991 16.11.1991 D: Arts. I, II, III
Laos 30.10.1973
Libya AS 04.08.1977 09.02.1978
Niger AS 19.05.1975 09.02.1978
Portugal AS 19.11.1975 09.02.1978
Russian Federation 17.12.1974 D: Art. XIII
Sierra Leone 27.10.1973
Slovenia AS 20.08.1992 20.08.1992
United Kingdom 10.10.1974
United States of America 27.10.1973

 

* Dates of notification of succession to the Convention by Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia. The former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia deposited an instrument of accession to the Convention on 9 August 1977.

Notes:

The Republic of China signed the Convention on October 27, 1973. Effective January 1, 1979, the United States recognized the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal governement of China.

The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (Czechoslovakia) signed the Convention on December 30, 1974. On December 31, 1992, at midnight, Czechoslovakia ceased to exist and was succeeded by two separate and independent States, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.