Convention Concerning Forced Labor 4

Convention Concerning Forced Labor

 

Article 20

Collective punishment laws under which a community may be punished for
crimes committed by any of its members shall not contain provisions for
forced or compulsory labour by the community as one of the methods of
punishment.

Article 21

Forced or compulsory labour shall not be used for work underground in mines.

Article 22

The annual reports that Members which ratify this Convention agree to make
to the International Labour Office, pursuant to the provisions of Article
22 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, on the
measures they have taken to give effect to the provisions of this
Convention, shall contain as full information as possible, in respect of
each territory concerned, regarding the extent to which recourse has been
had to forced or compulsory labour in that territory, the purposes for which
it has been employed, the sickness and death rates, hours of work, methods
of payment of wages and rates of wages, and any other relevant information.

Article 23

1. To give effect to the provisions of this Convention the competent
authority shall issue complete and precise regulations governing the use of
forced or compulsory labour.

2. These regulations shall contain, inter alia, rules permitting any person
from whom forced or compulsory labour is exacted to forward all complaints
relative to the conditions of labour to the authorities and ensuring that
such complaints will be examined and taken into consideration.

Article 24

Adequate measures shall in all cases be taken to ensure that the regulations
governing the employment of forced or compulsory labour are strictly
applied, either by extending the duties of any existing labour inspectorate
which has been established for the inspection of voluntary labour to cover
the inspection of forced or compulsory labour or in some other appropriate
manner. Measures shall also be taken to ensure that the regulations are
brought to the knowledge of persons from whom such labour is exacted.

Article 25

The illegal exaction of forced or compulsory labour shall be punishable as
a penal offence, and it shall be an obligation on any Member ratifying this
Convention to ensure that the penalties imposed by law are really adequate
and are strictly enforced.

Article 26

1. Each Member of the International Labour Organisation which ratifies this
Convention undertakes to apply it to the territories placed under its
sovereignty, jurisdiction, protection, suzerainty, tutelage or authority,
so far as it has the right to accept obligations affecting matters of
internal jurisdiction; provided that, if such Member may desire to take
advantage of the provisions of Article 35 of the Constitution of the
International Labour Organisation, it shall append to its ratification a
declaration stating–

(1) the territories to which it intends to apply the provisions of this
Convention without modification;

(2) the territories to which it intends to apply the provisions of this
Convention with modifications, together with details of the said
modifications:

(3) the territories in respect of which it reserves its decision.

2. The aforesaid declaration shall be deemed to be an integral part of the
ratification and shall have the force of ratification. It shall be open to
any Member, by a subsequent declaration, to cancel in whole or in part the
reservations made, in pursuance of the provisions of subparagraphs (2) and
(3) of this Article, in the original declaration.

Article 27

The formal ratifications of this Convention under the conditions set forth
in the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation shall be
communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for
registration.

Article 28

1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members whose
ratifications have been registered with the International Labour Office.

2. It shall come into force twelve months after the date on which the
ratifications of two Members of the International Labour Organisation 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 the ratification has been registered.

Article 29

As soon as the ratifications of two Members of the International Labour
Organisation have been registered with the International Labour Office, the
Director-General of the International Labour Office shall so notify all the
Members of the International Labour Organisation. He shall likewise notify
them of the registration of ratifications which may be communicated
subsequently by other Members of the Organisation.

Article 30

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 with the
International Labour Office.

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 five years and,
thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the expiration of each period
of five years under the terms provided for in this Article.

Article 31

At the expiration of each period of five years after the coming into force
of this Convention, the Governing Body of the International Labour Office
shall present to the General Conference a report on the working of this
Convention and shall consider the desirability of placing on the agenda of
the Conference the question of its revision in whole or in part.

Article 32

1. Should the Conference adopt a new Convention revising this Convention in
whole or in part, the ratification by a Member of the new revising
Convention shall ipso jure involve denunciation of this Convention without
any requirement of delay, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 30
above, if and when the new revising Convention shall have come into force.

2. As from the date of the coming into force of the new revising Convention,
the present Convention shall cease to be open to ratification by the
Members.

3. Nevertheless, this Convention shall remain in force in its actual form
and content for those Members which have ratified it but have not ratified
the revising Convention.

Article 33

The French and English texts of this Convention shall both be authentic.

The foregoing is the authentic text of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930,
as modified by the Final Articles Revision Convention, 1946.

The original text of the Convention was authenticated on 25 July 1930 by the
signatures of E. Mahaim, President of the Conference, and Albert Thomas,
Director of the International Labour Office.

The Convention first came into force on 1 May 1932.

IN FAITH WHEREOF I have, in pursuance of the provisions of Article 6 of the
Final Articles Revision Convention, 1946, authenticated with my signature
this thirty-first day of August 1948 two original copies of the text of the
Convention as modified.

Conclusion

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