Convention Concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment 2

Convention Concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment

 

Article 8. 1. After consultation with the organisations of employers and
workers concerned, where such exist, the competent authority may, by permits
granted in individual cases, allow exceptions to the prohibition of
employment or work provided for in Article 2 of this Convention, for such
purposes as participation in artistic performances.

2. Permits so granted shall limit the number of hours during which and
prescribe the conditions in which employment or work is allowed.

Article 9. 1. All necessary measures, including the provision of appropriate
penalties, shall be taken by the competent authority to ensure the effective
enforcement of the provisions of this Convention.

2. National laws or regulations or the competent authority shall define the
persons responsible for compliance with the provisions giving effect to the
Convention.

3. National laws or regulations or the competent authority shall prescribe
the registers or other documents which shall be kept and made available by
the employer; such registers or documents shall contain the names and ages
or dates of birth, duly certified wherever possible, of persons whom he
employs or who work for him and who are less than 18 years of age.

 

Article 10. 1. This Convention revises, on the terms set forth in this
Article, the Minimum Age (Industry) Convention, 1919, the Minimum Age (Sea)
Convention, 1920, the Minimum Age (Agriculture) Convention, 1921, the
Minimum Age (Trimmers and Stokers) Convention, 1921, the Minimum Age (Non-
Industrial Employment) Convention, 1932, the Minimum Age (Sea) Convention
(Revised), 1936, the Minimum Age (Industry) Convention (Revised), 1937, the
Minimum Age (Non-Industrial Employment) Convention (Revised), 1937, the
Minimum Age (Fishermen) Convention, 1959, and the Minimum Age (Underground
Work) Convention, 1965.

2. The coming into force of this Convention shall not close the Minimum Age
(Sea) Convention (Revised), 1936, the Minimum Age (Industry) Convention
(Revised), 1937, the Minimum Age (Non-Industrial Employment) Convention
(Revised), 1937, the Minimum Age (Fishermen) Convention, 1959, or the
Minimum Age (Underground Work) Convention, 1956, to further ratification.

3. The Minimum Age (Industry) Convention, 1919, the Minimum Age (Sea)
Convention, 1920, the Minimum Age (Agriculture) Convention 1921, and the
Minimum Age (Trimmers and Stokers) Convention, 1921, shall be closed to
further ratification when all the parties thereto have consented to such
closing by ratification of this Convention or by a declaration communicated
to the Director-General of the International Labour Office.

4. When the obligations of this Convention are accepted

(a) by a Member which is a party to the Minimum Age (Industry) Convention
(Revised), 1937, and a minimum age of not less than 15 years is
specified in pursuance of Article 2 of this Convention, this shall
ipso jure involve the immediate denunciation of that Convention,

(b) in respect of non-industrial employment as defined in the Minimum Age
(Non-Industrial Employment) Convention, 1932, by a Member which is a
party to that Convention, this shall ipso jure involve the immediate
denunciation of that Convention,

(c) in respect of non-industrial employment as defined in the Minimum Age
(Non-Industrial Employment) Convention (Revised), 1937, by a Member
which is a party to that Convention, and a minimum age of not less
than 15 years is specified in pursuance of Article 2 of this
Convention, this shall ipso jure involve the immediate denunciation
of that Convention,

(d) in respect of maritime employment, by a Member which is a party to
the Minimum Age (Sea) Convention (Revised), 1936, and a minimum age
of not less than 15 years is specified in pursuance of Article 2 of
this Convention or the Member specifies that Article 3 of this
Convention applies to maritime employment, this shall ipso jure
involve the immediate denunciation of that Convention,

(e) in respect of employment in maritime fishing, by a Member which is a
party to the Minimum Age (Fishermen) Convention, 1959, and a minimum
age of not less than 15 years is specified in pursuance of Article 2
of this Convention or the Member specifies that Article 3 of this
Convention applies to employment in maritime fishing, this shall ipso
jure involve the immediate denunciation of that Convention,

(f) by a Member which is a party to the Minimum Age (Underground Work)
Convention, 1965, and a minimum age of not less than the age
specified in pursuance of that Convention is specified in pursuance
of Article 2 of this Convention or the Member specifies that such an
age applies to employment underground in mines in virtue of Article
3 of this Convention, this shall ipso jure involve the immediate
denunciation of that Convention,

if and when this Convention shall have come into force.

5. Acceptance of the obligations of this Convention

(a) shall involve the denunciation of the Minimum Age (Industry)
Convention, 1919, in accordance with Article 12 thereof,

(b) in respect of agriculture shall involve the denunciation of the
Minimum Age (Agriculture) Convention, 1921, in accordance with
Article 9 thereof,

(c) in respect of maritime employment shall involve the denunciation of
the Minimum Age (Sea) Convention, 1920, in accordance with Article 10
thereof, and of the Minimum Age (Trimmers and Stokers) Convention,
1921, in accordance with Article 12 thereof,

if and when this Convention shall have come into force.

Article 11. The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be
communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for
registration.

Article 12. 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 ratification has been registered.

Article 13. 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 14. 1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall
notify all Members of the International Labour Organisation of the
registration of all ratifications 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 15. 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 and acts of denunciation registered by him
in accordance with the provisions of the preceding Articles.

Article 16. 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 17. 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 13 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 18. The English and French versions of the text of this Convention
are equally authoritative.

The foregoing is the authentic text of the Convention duly adopted by the
General Conference of the International Labour Organisation during its
Fifty-eighth Session which was held at Geneva and declared closed the
twenty-seventh day of June 1973.

IN FAITH WHEREOF we have appended our signatures this twenty-seventh day of
June 1973.

Conclusion

Notes

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