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Article 12. In the first paragraph, the Secretary-General of the United Nations shall be substituted for the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, and Members of the United Nations shall be substituted for Members of the League of Nations. Article 12, the second paragraph, shall read: The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall notify the receipt of any such denunciation to all Members of the United Nations and to the non-member States to which the Secretary-General has communicated a copy of the Convention. Article 13 shall be deleted. Article 14 shall read: A special record shall be kept by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, showing which of the Parties have signed, ratified, acceded to or denounced the present Convention. This record shall be open at all times to any of the Members of the United Nations or any non-member State to which the Secretary-General has communicated a copy of the Convention. It shall be published as often as possible. In Article 15 the International Court of Justice shall be substituted for the Permanent Court of International Justice, and the Statute of the International Court of Justice shall be substituted for the Protocol of Signature of the Permanent Court of International Justice. In Article 16 the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations shall be substituted for the Council of the League of Nations. APPENDIX CONVENTION FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE CIRCULATION OF AND TRAFFIC IN OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS OF 12 SEPTEMBER 1923, AS AMENDED BY THE PROTOCOL OF 12 NOVEMBER 1947 Article 1 The High Contracting Parties agree to take all measures to discover, prosecute and punish any person engaged in committing any of the following offences, and accordingly agree that It shall be a punishable offence : (1) For purposes of or by way of trade or for distribution or public exhibition to make or produce or have in possession obscene writings, drawings, prints, paintings, printed matter, pictures, posters, emblems, photographs, cinematograph films or any other obscene objects ; (2) For the purposes above mentioned, to import, convey or export or cause to be imported, conveyed or exported any of the said obscene matters or things, or in any manner whatsoever to put them into circulation; (3) To carry on or take part in a business, whether public or private, concerned with any of the said obscene matters or things, or to deal in the said matters or things in any manner whatsoever, or to distribute them or to exhibit them publicly or to make a business of lending them ;

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