 Where the state chooses to be so bound, it may also restrict or limit the jurisdiction of the court in a number of ways.The UK's clause deposited at the court excluded, amongst other things, the jurisdiction of the court with regard "to any disputes with the government of any country which is a member of the Commonwealth with regard to situations or facts existing before 1 January 1969".The temporal limitation of 1 January 1969 was inserted to exclude all disputes arising during decolonisation.