The convention merely reaffirmed the statute adopted few days earlier at a League of Nations conference held in Barcelona.
Article 3 prohibited governments from demanding payments for transit rights, except for dues designated to cover operational expenses.
Article 7 permitted governments to deviate from the provisions of the statute in cases of national emergency, but required this be done for as brief period as possible.
Article 12 permitted governments to postpone temporarily the applications of the transit provisions in case their territory or parts of it still suffered from the devastation caused by the First World War.
Article 14 permitted governments to refrain from applying reasonable transit provisions to territories that were either under populated or lacking in proper arrangements of the rule of law.