Article 14

1. Each Contracting Party shall take the necessary measures to ensure that, on the expiry of a period of one year from the entry into force of this Convention with respect to that Party,

(a) the entries made in its registers and the certificates issued by its offices before that date are brought into conformity with the provisions of this Convention;

(b) new registrations or cancellations of registrations in pursuance of the provisions of article 3 of this Convention are duly carried out.

2. As a transitional measure, certificates issued by a Contracting Party before the expiry of the relevant period mentioned in paragraph 1 of this article for a vessel registered in its registers shall, until the expiry of the above-mentioned period, be accepted as equivalent to the certificates provided for under article 12 of this Convention.