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Section 14.01. This Agreement shall remain open for signature and acceptance on behalf of all the Parties named in the Preamble to this Agreement until 30 June 1974, or such later date as may be fixed by the Bank by notice to the other Parties.
Section 14.02. This Agreement shall enter into force on the date when the Secretary of the Bank shall certify that Laos, Thailand, the Bank and such of the Contributing Parties and Bilateral Lenders whose contributions total an amount of not less than the equivalent of twenty-four million seven hundred thousand dollars ($ 24,700,000) have either signed this Agreement without reservation as to acceptance or, having signed it subject to acceptance, notified the Bank as prospective Administrator of acceptance. The Bank shall promptly after such date notify each of the Parties of the entry into force of this Agreement.
Section 14.03. All contributions paid to, and all actions of, or approved by, the Bank as prospective Administrator, on or after the date of this Agreement and before the date when this Agreement shall enter into force pursuant to Section 14.02 shall be deemed to have been made or done pursuant to this Agreement, and credits and charges to the Fund and to the Parties shall be upon that basis.