1. Any package or object weighing a thousand kilograms (one metric tonne) or more gross weight, recorded within the limits of the territory of any member ratifying this Convention and intended to be transported by sea or inland waterway, shall, Before being embedded, carry the indication of its weight, marked outdoors in a clear and lasting way.

2. National legislation may, in exceptional cases where it is difficult to determine the exact weight, authorise the indication of the approximate weight. ¹

3. The obligation to make compliance with this provision will only be the responsibility of the government of the country from which the package or object is shipped, excluding the government of any other country that this package may cross to arrive at its destination.

4. It will be up to national law to decide whether the obligation to mark the weight in the above manner should be the responsibility of the sender or someone else. ²

The official ratifications of this Convention under the conditions established by the Constitution of the International Labour Organization shall be communicated to and registered by the Director General of the International Labour Office.

(1) This Convention shall only bind the members of the International Labour Organization, whose ratification will have been registered with the International Labour Office.

2. It shall enter into force twelve months after the ratifications of two members have been registered by the Director General.

3. Thereafter, this Convention shall enter into force for each member twelve months after the date on which its ratification has been registered.

As soon as the ratifications of two members of the International Labour Organization have been registered with the International Labour Office, the Director-General of the International Labour Office will notify all members of the International Labour Organization. It will also notify them of the registration of ratifications, which will subsequently be communicated to it by all other members of the organisation.

1. Any member who has ratified this Convention may denounce it at the expiration of a period of ten years after the date of the initial implementation of the Convention by means of an act communicated to the Director General of the International Labour Office, And by registered him. The denunciation shall take effect only one year after being registered at the International Labour Office.

2. Any member who has ratified this Agreement which, within one year after the expiration of the ten-year period referred to in the preceding paragraph, shall not make use of the right of denunciation provided for in this Article shall be bound For a new period of ten years and thereafter may denounce this Convention at the expiration of each ten-year period under the conditions laid down in this Article.

Whenever it deems it necessary, the Governing Council of the International Labour Office shall submit to the General Conference a report on the implementation of the Convention and consider whether it should be included in the agenda of the Conference the question of its total or partial revision.

At the expiration of each period of ten years following the entry into force of this Convention, the Governing Council of the International Labour Office shall submit to the General Conference a report on the application of this Convention and decide whether to include in the agenda of the Conference the question of its total or partial revision.

1. In the event that the International Conference adopts a new convention for the full or partial revision of this Convention, the ratification by a member of the new revision convention would result in plain-right denunciation Of this Agreement without a condition of delay notwithstanding s. 5 above, subject to the entry into force of the new revision agreement.

2. From the date of entry into force of the new revision agreement, this Convention shall cease to be open for ratification by the members.

3. This Convention would, however, remain in force in its form and content for members who have ratified it and who would not ratify the new revision convention.

Both the English and French texts of this Agreement shall prevail.

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