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PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW COMPENDIUM VOLUME II

3. Copies of the annual reports shall be transmitted to the

Director-General of the International Labour Office within

a reasonable period after their publication and in any

case within three months.

ARTICLE 21

The annual report published by the central inspection

authority shall deal with the following and other relevant

subjects in so far as they are under the control of the said

authority:

(a) laws and regulations relevant to the work of the

inspection service;

(b) staff of the labour inspection service;

(c) statistics of workplaces liable to inspection and the

number of workers employed therein;

(d) statistics of inspection visits;

(e) statistics of violations and penalties imposed;

(f) statistics of industrial accidents;

(g) statistics of occupational diseases.

PART II Labour Inspection in Commerce

ARTICLE 22

Each Member of the International Labour Organisation

for which this Part of this Convention is in force shall

maintain a system of labour inspection in commercial

workplaces.

ARTICLE 23

The

system

of

labour

inspection

in

commercial

workplaces shall apply to 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.

ARTICLE 24

The

system

of

labour

inspection

in

commercial

workplaces shall comply with the requirements of Articles

3 to 21 of this Convention in so far as they are applicable.

PART III Miscellaneous Provisions

ARTICLE 25

1. Any Member of the International Labour Organisation

which ratifies this Convention may, by a declaration

appended to its ratification, exclude Part II from its

acceptance of the Convention.

2. Any Member which has made such a declaration may

at any time cancel that declaration by a subsequent

declaration.

3. Every Member for which a declaration made under

paragraph 1 of this Article is in force shall indicate each

year in its annual report upon the application of this

Convention the position of its law and practice in regard

to the provisions of Part II of this Convention and the

extent to which effect has been given, or is proposed to

be given, to the said provisions.

ARTICLE 26

In

any

case

in

which

it

is

doubtful

whether

any

undertaking,

part

or

service

of

an

undertaking

or

workplace is an undertaking, part, service or workplace to

which this Convention applies, the question shall be

settled by the competent authority.

ARTICLE 27

In this Convention the term legal provisions includes, in

addition to laws and regulations, arbitration awards and

collective agreements upon which the force of law is

conferred

and

which

are

enforceable

by

labour

inspectors.

ARTICLE 28

There shall be included in the annual reports to be

submitted under Article 22 of the Constitution of the

International

Labour

Organisation

full

information

concerning all laws and regulations by which effect is

given to the provisions of this Convention.

ARTICLE 29

1. In the case of a Member the territory of which includes

large areas where, by reason of the sparseness of the

population or the stage of development of the area, the

competent authority considers it impracticable to enforce

the provisions of this Convention, the authority may

exempt

such

areas

from

the

application

of

this

Convention either generally or with such exceptions in

respect of particular undertakings or occupations as it

thinks fit.

2. Each Member shall indicate in its first annual report

upon the application of this Convention submitted under

Article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labour

Organisation any areas in respect of which it proposes to

have recourse to the provisions of the present Article and

shall give the reasons for which it proposes to have

recourse thereto; no Member shall, after the date of its

first annual report, have recourse to the provisions of the

present Article except in respect of areas so indicated.

3. Each Member having recourse to the provisions of the

present

Article

shall

indicate

in

subsequent

annual

reports any areas in respect of which it renounces the

right to have recourse to the provisions of the present

Article.

ARTICLE 30

1. In respect of the territories referred to in article 35 of the

Constitution of the International Labour Organisation as

amended by the Constitution of the International Labour

Organisation Instrument of Amendment 1946, other than

the territories referred to in paragraphs 4 an, 5 of the said

article as so amended, each Member of the Organisation

which ratifies this Convention shall communicate to the

Director-General of the International Labour Office as

soon as possible after ratification a declaration stating —

a) the territories in respect of which it undertakes that the

provisions of the Convention shall be applied without

modification;

b) the territories in respect of which it undertakes that the

provisions of the Convention shall be applied subject to

modifications,

together

with

details

of

the

said

modifications;

c) the territories in respect of which the Convention is

inapplicable and in such cases the grounds on which it is

inapplicable;

d) the territories in respect of which it reserves its

decision.

2. The undertakings referred to in subparagraphs (a) and

(b) of paragraph 1 of this Article shall be deemed to be an

integral part of the ratification and shall have the force of

ratification.

3. Any Member may at any time by a subsequent

declaration cancel in whole or in part any reservations

made in its original declaration in virtue of subparagraphs

(b), (c) or (d) of paragraph 1 of this Article.

4. Any Member may, at any time at which the Convention

is

subject

to

denunciation

in

accordance

with

the

provisions

of

Article

34,

communicate

to

the

Director-General a declaration modifying in any other

respect the terms of any former declaration and stating

the present position in respect of such territories as it may

specify.

ARTICLE 31

1. Where the subject matter of this Convention is within

the

self-governing

powers

of

any

non-metropolitan

territory, the Member responsible for the international

relations of that territory may, in agreement with the

Government

of

the

territory,

communicate

to

the

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