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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

Legislative history of CISG article 20:
Match-up with 1978 Draft to assess relevance of Secretariat Commentary

      1978 Draft article 18                          CISG article 20 

(1)A period of time for acceptance        (1)A period of time for acceptance    
   fixed by an offeror in a telegram or      fixed by the offeror in a telegram or  
   a letter begins to run from the mo-       a letter begins to run from the mo-   
   ment the telegram is handed in for        ment the telegram is handed in for 
   dispatch or from the date shown on        dispatch or from the date shown on 
   the letter or, if no such date is         the letter or, if no such date is  
   shown, from the date shown on the         shown, from the date shown on the  
   envelope. A period of time for ac-        envelope. A period of time for ac-  
   ceptance fixed by an offeror by tele-     ceptance fixed by an offeror by tele- 
   phone, telex or other means of            phone, telex or other means of    
   instantaneous communication, be-          instantaneous communication, be-  
   gins to run from the moment that          gins to run from the moment that 
   the offer reaches the offeree.            the offer reaches the offeree.   

(2)If the notice of acceptance cannot     (2)Official holidays or non-business  
   be delivered at the address of the        days occurring during the period for  
   offeror due to an official holiday or     acceptance are included in calculat-  
   a non-business day falling on the         ing the period. However, if a notice  
   last day of the period for accep-         of acceptance cannot be delivered at   
   tance at the place of business of the     the address of the offeror on the last 
   offeror, the period is extended until     day of the period because that day     
   the first business day which follows.     falls on an official holiday or a non- 
   Official holidays or non-business         business day at the place of business  
   days occurring during the running         of the offeror, the period is extended 
   of the period of time are included in     until the first business day which fol-  
   calculating the period.                   lows.        


Editorial History
The Secretariat Commentary on 1978 Draft article 18 remains relevant to
CISG article 20.  An "an" was replaced by a "the" in paragraph (1) and
paragraph (2) contains various word changes and a re-positioning.  However,
all are drafting modifications and none effect changes in the substantive
contents of the text.

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