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plant, and properties (including buildings) whether owned by the
Company or on lease from any other person or persons, and the
Substances before and after their removal from the ground and
upon the technical processes carried out upon or utilised in
connexion with the Substances.”
(iv) in Article Eleventh of the existing Convention the words commencing
" But the Company shall also ” down to and including the words “ in
number and equipment ” shall be deleted and the following words
substituted therefore : 4‘ In pursuance of the foregoing the Shaikh or
his representative will appoint and provide at his own expense from
time to time as may be necessary sufficient regular police of the State
of Qatar for this duty. Such police will be trained and administered
by the proper officials of the Shaikh's Government. The company will
provide free of charge to the Shaik) suitable furnished quarters light
and water for such police in the areas occupied by the Company for
the purpose of its operations. As from the dale upon which such
police are appointed and ready for duty and for so long as they arc duly
provided from time to time in accordance with "this Article the
Company will make payment to the Shaikh in respect of the provision
of such police of a sum at the rale of £20,000 sterling per annum payable
quarterly in arrears, or such sum as may hereafter be agreed in the
event of any appreciable changes in the Company's requirements for
police having occurred or occurring since the 13th October 1951 when
a sum of Rs. 250,000 was agreed. Undertaking (4) set out in one of the
two letters herinbefore referred to in the definition of “ the Existing
Convention ” shall cease to have effect.
(b) Save as aforesaid the Existing Convention shall continue in full force and
effect.
Article 7
Should any dispute occur between the Shaikh and the Company in regard to
the interpretation of this Agreement or of any matter arising therefrom or in regard
to the engagements obligatory on either of the parties in accordance therewith, such
dispute shall if no agreement can be arrived at for settling it by any other method
be referred to arbitration in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
Sixteenth of the Amended Convention.
Article 8
This Agreement shall be binding upon both the parties and their successors
and assigns; and it has been written in Arabic and English and all due care has
been taken to make the two texts identical in meaning. And if any difference should
arise as to the meaning or interpretation of any Article, at any time, the Arabic
version is to be relied upon.
In witness whereof the two parties have hereunto set their hands and seals on
the day and in the year mentioned in the preamble.

(Sgd.) Ali bin Abdulla Al Thani (Sgd.) Richard Bird
(Ruler of Qatar) For and on behalf of
Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited

(Sgd.) Abdulla Derwish Fakhroo Witness (Sgd.) H. M. Jackson
(Sgd.) Ebrahim Al Arrayed (Sgd.) R. J. Proudfoot
Signed before me
(Sgd.) C. Ewart Biggs
Her Majesty's Poltical Officer, Qatar.

adjusted if necessary as set out below.