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PART-V: INVALIDITY, TERMINATION AND SUSPENSION OF THE
OPERATION OF TREATIES
SECTION-2: INVALIDITY OF TREATIES
| ARTICLE 46: | Provisions of internal law regarding competence to conclude treaties |
1. A State may not invoke the fact that its consent
to be bound by a treaty has been expressed in violation
of a provision of its internal law regarding competence
to conclude treaties as invalidating its consent unless
that violation was manifest and concerned a rule of its internal law of
fundamental importance.
2. A violation is manifest if it would be objectively
evident to any State conducting itself in the matter
in accordance with normal practice and in good faith.
- Referred by:
- ARTICLE 27: Internal law and observance of treaties
- ARTICLE 45: Loss of a right to invoke a ground for invalidating, terminating, withdrawing from or suspending the operation of a treaty