Date: 19 February 1925
Done at: Geneva
Entry into force: 11 December 1946 in accordance
with par. 2 of art.VII of the 1946 protocol
Reference: v81 League of Nations Treaty Series
p317
Status: signed on 24 February 1948 (definitive
signature)
Date: 19 February 1925
Done at: Geneva
Entry into force: 25 September 1928 in accordance
with art.36
Reference: v81 League of Nations Treaty Series
p317
Status: Ratified on 17 February 1926
Date: 13 July 1931
Done at: Geneva
Entry into force: 21 November 1947 in accordance
with par. II of art VII of the Protocol
Reference: v139 League of Nations Treaty Series
p301
Status: signed on 24 February 1948 (definitive
signature)
Date: 13 July 1931
Done at: Geneva
Entry into force: 1 July 1933 in accordance
with art.30
Reference: v139 League of Nations Treaty Series
p301
Status: acceded on 4 January 1938
Date: 11 December 1946
Done at: Lake Success, New York
Entry into force: 11 December 1946 in accordance
with par.1 of art.VII
Reference: v12 U.N.T.S. p179
Status: signed on 15 December 1946*, ratified on 24 February 1948
(* Signature was affixed without reservation as to approval,
but the full powers provided for signature subject to this reservation.)
Date: 19 November 1948
Done at: Paris
Entry into force: 1 December 1949 in accordance
with art.6
Reference: v44 U.N.T.S. p277
Status: Signed on 8 December 1948 (definitive signature);
5 October 1954, notification of territorial application to South West Africa
Date: 23 June 1953
Done at: New York
Entry into force: 8 March 1963 in accordance
with art.21
Reference: v456 U.N.T.S. p3
Status: signed on 29 December 1953, ratified on
9 March 1960; 29 December 1953, notification of territorial application
to South West Africa
Date: 30 March 1961
Done at: New York
Entry into force: 13 December 1964 in accordance
with art.41
Reference: v520 U.N.T.S. p151
Status: acceded on 16 November 1971; Reservation:
"Subject to a reservation in respect of article 48 of the Convention, as provided for in article 50, paragraph 2."
Date: 21 February 1971
Done at: Vienna
Entry into force: 16 August
1976 in accordance with art.26(1)
Reference: v1019 U.N.T.S. p175
Status: acceded to on 27 January 1972; Reservation:
"The Government of the Republic of South Africa deem it advisable to accede to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, subject to reservations in respect of Article 19 paragraphs 1 and 2, Article 27 and Article 31 as provided for in Article 32 paragraph 2 of the Convention."
Date: 25 March 1972
Done at: Geneva
Entry into force: 8 August 1975 in accordance
with art.18
Reference: v976 U.N.T.S. p3
Status: signed on 25 March 1972, ratified on 16
December 1975
Date: 8 August 1975
Done at: New York
Entry into force: 8 August 1975 in accordance
with art.18 of the 1972 Protocol
Reference: v976 U.N.T.S. p105
Status: ratified on 16 December 1975 in respect
of the Protocol of 25 March 1972
Date: 20 December 1988
Done at: Vienna
Entry into force: 11 November 1990 in accordance
with art.29(1)
Reference: E/CONF.82/15, Corr.1 and 2 (English
only)
Status: acceded on 14 December 1998; Declaration effected on 25 February 1999:
"Pursuant to article 32(4), the Republic of South Africa does not consider itself bound by the provisions of article 32, paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Convention".