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PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW COMPENDIUM VOLUME II

Director-General of the International Labour Office a

declaration

accepting

on behalf of the territory the

obligations of this Convention.

2.

A

declaration

accepting

the

obligations

of

this

Convention

may

be

communicated

to

the

Director-General of the International Labour Office —

a) by two or more Members of the Organisation in respect

of any territory which is under their joint authority; or

b) by any international authority responsible for the

administration of any territory, in virtue of the Charter of

the United Nations or otherwise, in respect of any such

territory.

3. Declarations communicated to the Director-General of

the International Labour Office in accordance with the

preceding

paragraphs

of

this

Article

shall

indicate

whether the provisions of the Convention will be applied

in the territory concerned without modification or subject

to modifications; when the declaration indicates that the

provisions of the Convention will be applied subject to

modifications

it

shall

give

details

of

the

said

modifications.

4.

The

Member,

Members

or international authority

concerned may at any time by a subsequent declaration

renounce in whole or in part the right to have recourse to

any modification indicated in any former declaration.

5.

The

Member,

Members

or

international authority

concerned may, at any time at which this 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 the application of the Convention.

PART IV Final Provisions

ARTICLE 32

The

formal

ratifications

of

this

Convention shall be

communicated

to

the

Director-General

of

the

International Labour Office for registration.

ARTICLE 33

1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those

Members of the International Labour Organisation whose

ratifications

have

been

registered

with

the

Director-General.

2. It shall come into force twelve months after the date on

which

the

ratifications

of

two Members have been

registered with the Director-General.

3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any

Member twelve months after the date on which its

ratifications has been registered.

ARTICLE 34

1. A Member which has ratified this Convention may

denounce it after the expiration of ten years from the

date on which the Convention first comes into force, by

an act communicated to the Director-General of the

International

Labour

Office

for

registration.

Such

denunciation shall not take effect until one year after the

date on which it is registered.

2. Each Member which has ratified this Convention and

which does not, within the year following the expiration

of the period of ten years mentioned in the preceding

paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation provided for

in this Article, will be bound for another period of ten

years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at

the expiration of each period of ten years under the terms

provided for in this Article.

ARTICLE 35

1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office

shall notify all Members of the International Labour

Organisation

of

the

registration

of

all

ratifications,

declarations and denunciations communicated to him by

the Members of the Organisation.

2. When notifying the Members of the Organisation of

the registration of the second ratification communicated

to him, the Director-General shall draw the attention of

the Members of the Organisation to the date upon which

the Convention will come into force.

ARTICLE 36

The Director-General of the International Labour Office

shall communicate to the Secretary-General of the United

Nations for registration in accordance with Article 102 of

the Charter of the United Nations full particulars of all

ratifications,

declarations

and

acts

of

denunciation

registered by him in accordance with the provisions of

the preceding Articles.

ARTICLE 37

At such times as it may consider necessary the Governing

Body of the International Labour Office shall present to

the General Conference a report on the working of this

Convention and shall examine the desirability of placing

on the agenda of the Conference the question of its

revision in whole or in part.

ARTICLE 38

1.

Should

the

Conference

adopt

a

new

Convention

revising this Convention in whole or in part, 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 34 above, 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 39

The English and French versions of the text of this

Convention are equally authoritative.

(Convention Concerning Labour Inspection in Industry

and Commerce, [November 7, 1947])

Convention Concerning Migrations in

Abusive Conditions and the Promotion

of Equality of Opportunity and

Treatment of Migrant Workers

July 24, 1975

CONVENTION CONCERNING MIGRATIONS IN ABUSIVE

CONDITIONS AND THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY OF

OPPORTUNITY AND TREATMENT OF MIGRANT

WORKERS *

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

Sixtieth Session on 4 June 1975, and

Considering that the Preamble of the Constitution of the

International Labour Organisation assigns to it the task of

protecting "the interests of workers when employed in

countries other than their own", and

Considering

that

the

Declaration

of

Philadelphia

reaffirms,

among

the

principles

on

which

the

Organisation is based, that "labour is not a commodity",

and that "poverty anywhere constitutes a danger to

prosperity

everywhere",

and

recognizes

the

solemn

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