tor or by a subsequent assignee;
(b) the provisions of Articles 8 to 10 shall apply as if the subsequent assignee were the factor.
2. - For the purposes of this Convention, notice to the debtor of the subsequent assignment also constitutes notice of the assignment to the factor.
Article 12
This Convention shall not apply to a subsequent assignment which is prohibited by the terms of the factoring contract.
Chapter IV - FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 13
1. - This Convention is open for signature at the concluding meeting of the Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of the Draft Unidroit Conventions on International Factoring and International Financial Leasing and will remain open for signature by all States at Ottawa until 31 December 1990.
2. - This Convention is subject to ratification, acceptance or approval by States which have signed it.
3. - This Convention is open for accession by all States which are not signatory States as from the date it is open for signature.
4. - Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession is effected by the deposit of a formal instrument to that effect with the depositary.
Article 14
1. - This Convention enters into force on the first day of the month following the expiration of six months after the date of deposit of the third instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.
2. - For each State that ratifies, accepts, approves, or accedes to this Convention after the deposit of the third instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, this Convention enters into force in respect of that State on the first day of the month following the expiration of six months after the date of the deposit of its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.
Article 15
This Convention does not prevail over any treaty which has already been or may be entered into.
Article 16
1. - If a Contracting State has two or more territorial units in which different systems of law are applicable in relation to the matters dealt with in this convention, it may, at the time of signature, ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, declare that this Convention is to extend to all its territorial units or only to one or more of them, and may substitute its declaration by another declaration at any time.
2. - These declarations are to be notified to the depositary and are to state expressly the territorial units to which the Convention extends.
3. - If, by virtue of a declaration under this article, this Convention extends to one or more but not all of the territorial units of a Contracting State, and if the place of business of a party is located in that State, this place of business, for the purposes of this Convention, is considered not to be in a Contracting State, unless it is in a territorial unit to which the Convention extends.
4. - If a Contracting State makes no declaration under paragraph 1, the Convention is to extend to all territorial units of that State.
Article 17
1. - Two or more Contracting States which have the same or closely related legal rules on matters governed by this Convention may at any time declare that the Convention is not to apply where the supplier, the factor and the debtor have their places of business in those States. Such declarations may be made jointly or by reciprocal unilateral declarations.
2. - A Contracting State which has the same or closely related legal rules on matters governed by this Convention as one or more non-Contracting States may at any time declare that the Convention is not to apply where the supplier, the factor and the debtor have their places of business
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