In Conventions text ¹ Adopted by the International Labour Conference during its first thirty-two sessions, the final article providing for the submission of a report on the implementation of the Convention by the Governing Council of the International Bureau of Work, at the General Conference will be omitted and replaced by the following article:

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Any Member of the Organization which, after the date of entry into force of this Convention, shall communicate to the Director General of the International Labour Office its formal ratification of a convention adopted by the Conference during its Thirty-two first sessions will be deemed to have ratified this Convention as amended by this Agreement.

Two copies of this Convention shall be signed by the President of the Conference and the Director General of the International Labour Office. One such copy shall be deposited in the archives of the International Labour Office, the other shall be deposited in the hands of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for registration in accordance with art. 102 of the United Nations Charter. The Director General shall transmit a certified copy of this Convention to each of the Members of the International Labour Organization.

1. The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the Director General of the International Labour Office.

2. This Convention shall enter into force on the date on which the ratifications of two Members of the International Labour Organization have been received by the Director General.

3. On the date of entry into force of this Convention and upon the subsequent receipt of further ratifications of this Convention, the Director-General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Members of this The International Labour Organization and the United Nations Secretary-General.

4. Any Member ratifying this Agreement recognizes that the provisions of the amended clause in s. 1 above replace, upon the initial entry into force of this instrument, the obligation of the Administrative Council, in accordance with the conventions adopted by the Conference at its thirty-first sessions, to submit to it, to Time limits fixed by the said conventions, a report on the application of each of them and to examine at the same time whether it is appropriate to include in the agenda of the Conference the question of its total or partial revision.

Notwithstanding any provision contained in one of the Conventions adopted by the Conference during its first thirty-two sessions, the ratification of this Convention by a Member shall not result in the denunciation of a The entry into force of this Convention shall not have the effect of closing any of the said Conventions to further ratifications.

1. In the event that the Conference adopts a new convention for the total or partial revision of this Convention, and unless the new Convention provides otherwise:

A.

Ratification by a Member of the new Convention would result in the full termination of this Convention, provided that the new revision agreement entered into force;

B.

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

(2) This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its form and content for Members who have ratified it and which do not ratify the Convention for revision.

The English and French versions of this Agreement are equally authentic.