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PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW COMPENDIUM VOLUME II

1.

Should

the

Conference

adopt

a

new

Convention

revising this Convention, then, unless the new Convention

otherwise provides:

(a) the ratification by a Member of the new revising

Convention

shall

ipso

jure

involve

the

immediate

denunciation of this Convention, notwithstanding the

provisions of Article 22, if and when the new revising

Convention shall have come into force;

(b) as from the date when the new revising Convention

comes into force, this Convention shall cease to be open

to ratification by the Members.

2. This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its

actual form and content for those Members which have

ratified it but have not ratified the revising Convention.

ARTICLE 27

The English and French versions of the text of this

Convention are equally authoritative.

(Convention

Concerning

Decent

Work

for

Domestic

Workers, [June 16, 2011])

Convention Concerning Labour

Inspection in Industry and Commerce

November 7, 1947

CONVENTION CONCERNING LABOUR INSPECTION IN

INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE *

The

General

Conference of the International Labour

Organisation,

Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body

of the International Labour Office, and having met in its

Thirtieth Session on 19 June 1947, and

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals

with regard to the organisation of labour inspection in

industry and commerce, which is the fourth item on the

agenda of the Session, and

Having determined that these proposals shall take the

form of an international Convention,

adopts this eleventh day of July of the year one thousand

nine hundred and forty-seven the following Convention,

which may be cited as the Labour Inspection Convention,

1947:

PART I Labour Inspection in Industry

ARTICLE 1

Each Member of the International Labour Organisation

for which this Convention is in force shall maintain a

system of labour inspection in industrial workplaces.

ARTICLE 2

1. The system of labour inspection in industrial workplaces

shall apply to all workplaces in respect of which legal

provisions

relating

to

conditions

of

work

and

the

protection of workers while engaged in their work are

enforceable by labour inspectors.

2. National laws or regulations may exempt mining and

transport undertakings or parts of such undertakings

from the application of this Convention.

ARTICLE 3

1. The functions of the system of labour inspection shall

be:

(a) to secure the enforcement of the legal provisions

relating to conditions of work and the protection of

workers while engaged in their work, such as provisions

relating to hours, wages, safety, health and welfare, the

employment of children and young persons, and other

connected matters, in so far as such provisions are

enforceable by labour inspectors;

(b)

to

supply

technical

information

and

advice

to

employers and workers concerning the most effective

means of complying with the legal provisions;

(c) to bring to the notice of the competent authority

defects or abuses not specifically covered by existing

legal provisions.

2. Any further duties which may be entrusted to labour

inspectors shall not be such as to interfere with the

effective discharge of their primary duties or to prejudice

in any way the authority and impartiality which are

necessary to inspectors in their relations with employers

and workers.

ARTICLE 4

1. So far as is compatible with the administrative practice

of the Member, labour inspection shall be placed under

the supervision and control of a central authority.

2. In the case of a federal State, the term central authority

may mean either a federal authority or a central authority

of a federated unit.

ARTICLE 5

The

competent

authority

shall

make

appropriate

arrangements to promote:

(a) effective co-operation between the inspection services

and other government services and public or private

institutions engaged in similar activities; and

(b)

collaboration

between

officials

of

the

labour

inspectorate

and

employers

and

workers

or

their

organisations.

ARTICLE 6

The inspection staff shall be composed of public officials

whose status and conditions of service are such that they

are

assured

of

stability

of

employment

and

are

independent of changes of government and of improper

external influences.

ARTICLE 7

1. Subject to any conditions for recruitment to the public

service which may be prescribed by national laws or

regulations, labour inspectors shall be recruited with sole

regard to their qualifications for the performance of their

duties.

2. The means of ascertaining such qualifications shall be

determined by the competent authority.

3. Labour inspectors shall be adequately trained for the

performance of their duties.

ARTICLE 8

Both men and women shall be eligible for appointment

to the inspection staff; where necessary, special duties

may be assigned to men and women inspectors.

ARTICLE 9

Each Member shall take the necessary measures to

ensure

that

duly

qualified

technical

experts

and

specialists, including specialists in medicine, engineering,

electricity and chemistry, are associated in the work of

inspection, in such manner as may be deemed most

appropriate under national conditions, for the purpose of

securing the enforcement of the legal provisions relating

to the protection of the health and safety of workers while

engaged in their work and of investigating the effects of

processes, materials and methods of work on the health

and safety of workers.

ARTICLE 10

The number of labour inspectors shall be sufficient to

secure

the

effective

discharge of the duties of the

inspectorate and shall be determined with due regard for:

(a) the importance of the duties which inspectors have to

perform, in particular—

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