Royal Decree 99/96 Amending Royal Decree 54/96 Approving the Accession of the Sultanate to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

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We, Qaboos bin Said, the Sultan of Oman

after perusal of Royal Decree 26/75 Issuing the Law Governing the Administrative Apparatus of the State and its amendments,

and Royal Decree 54/96 Approving the Accession of the Sultanate to the Convention on the Rights of the Child,

and in pursuance of public interest,

have decreed as follows

Article I

The text of the second paragraph of the preamble of the mentioned Royal Decree 54/96 is hereby replaced with the following text:

and the Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 44/25 at its forty-fourth session held on 20 November 1989.

Article II

This decree must be published in the Official Gazette, and comes into force from the date of its issuance.

Issued on: 23 Jumada Al-Akhirah 1417
Corresponding to: 5 November 1996

Qaboos bin Said
Sultan of Oman

Published in Official Gazette 587 issued on 16 November 1996.