SECTION 8

Amendment 1. Any state party to the present Protocol may propose an amendment and file it with the Organization of African Unity Secretary General, who thereupon shall communicate the proposed amendment to the State Parties to the present Protocol with a request that they notify him whether they favour a conference of State Parties for the purpose of considering and voting upon the proposal. In the event that at least one third of the State Parties favour such conference, the Secretary General shall convene the conference under the auspices of the Organization of African Unity. Any amendment adopted by a majority of the States Parties present and voting at the Conference, shall immediately come into force. 2. In the event, that a conference is not favoured, the Secretary General shall call upon State Parties to indicate to him in writing whether or not they are in favour of the proposed amendment. A simple majority of such indication immediately on receipt by the Secretary General shall bring the amendment into force. 3. When amendments come into force, they shall be binding on those States Parties which have accepted them; either States Parties still being bound by the provisions of the present Protocol and any earlier amendments which they have accepted.