SECTION 9

The liens cease to exist, apart from other cases provided for by national laws, at the expiration of one year, and, in the case of liens for supplies mentioned in No.5 of Article 2, shall continue in force for not more than six months. The periods for which the lien remains in force in the case of liens securing claims in respect of assistance and salvage run from the day when the services terminated, in the case of liens securing claims in respect of collision and other accidents and in respect of bodily injuries from the day when the damage was caused; in the case of liens for the loss of or damage or cargo or baggage from the day of the delivery of the cargo or baggage or from the day when they should have been delivered; for repairs and supplies and other cases mentioned in No.5 of Article 2 from the day the claim originated. In all the other cases the period runs from the enforceability of the claim. The fact that any of the persons employed on board, mentioned in No. 2 of Article 2 has a right to any payment in advance or on account does not render his claim enforceable. As respects the cases provided for in the national laws in which a lien is extinguished, a sale shall extinguish a lien only if accompanied by formalities of publicity which shall be laid down by the national laws. These formalities shall include a notice given in such form and within such time as the national laws may prescribe to the authority charged with keeping the registers referred to in Article 1 of this Convention. The grounds upon which the above periods may be interrupted are determined by the law of the court where the case is tried. The High Contracting Parties reserve to themselves the right to provide by legislation in their respective countries, that the said periods shall be extended in cases where it has not been possible to arrest the vessel to which a lien attaches in the territorial waters of the state in which the claimant has his domicile or his principal place of business, provided that the extended period shall not exceed three years from the time when the claim originated.