CONVENTION No. 16 Convention concerning the Compulsory MedicalExamination of Children and Young Persons Employed at Sea
CONVENTION No. 16 Convention concerning the Compulsory MedicalExamination of Children and Young Persons Employed at Sea
[Date of coming into force: 20 November 1922.]
Whole document
The General Conference of the International Labour Organization,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the
International Labour Office, and having met in its Third Session on 25
October 1921, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to
the compulsory medical examination of children and young persons employed
at sea, which is included in the eighth item of the agenda of the Session,
and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an
international Convention, adopts the following Convention, which may be
cited as the Medical Examination of Young Persons (Sea) Convention, 1921,
for ratification by the Members of the International Labour Organization
in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the International
Labour Organization:
Article 1
For the purpose of this Convention, the term "vessel" includes all
ships and boats, of any nature whatsoever, engaged in maritime navigation,
whether publicly or privately owned; it excludes ships of war.
Article 2
The employment of any child or young person under eighteen years of
age on any vessel, other than vessels upon which only members for the
same family are employed, shall be conditional on the production of a
medical certificate attesting fitness for such work, signed by a doctor
who shall be approved by the competent authority.
Article 3
The continued employment at sea of any such child or young person
shall be subject to the repetition of such medical examination at
intervals of not more than one year, and the production, after each such
examination, of a further medical certificate attesting fitness for such
work. Should a medical certificate expire in the course of a voyage, it
shall remain in force until the end of the said voyage.
Article 4
In urgent cases, the competent authority may allow a young person
below the age of eighteen years to embark without having undergone the
examination provided for in Articles 2 and 3 of this Convention, always
provided that such an examination shall be undergone at the first port at
which the vessel calls.
Article 5
The formal ratifications of this Convention, under the conditions set
forth in the Constitution of the International Labour Organization, shall
be communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office
for registration.
Article 6
1. This Convention shall come into force at the date on which the
ratifications of two Members of the International Labour Organization have
been registered by the Director-General.
2. It shall be binding only upon those Members whose ratifications
have been registered with the International Labour Office.
3. Thereafter, the Convention shall come into force for any Member at
the date on which its ratification has been registered with the
International Labour Office.
Article 7
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 shall so
notify all the Members of the International Labour Organization. He shall
likewise notify them of the registration of ratifications which may be
communicated subsequently by other Members of the Organization.
Article 8
Subject to the provisions of Article 6, each Member which ratifies
this Convention agrees to bring the provisions of Articles 1, 2, 3 and 4
into operation not later than 1 January 1924 and to take such action as
may be necessary to make these provisions effective.
Article 9
Each Member of the International Labour Organization which ratifies
this Convention engages to apply it to its colonies, possessions and
protectorates, in accordance with the provisions of Article 35 of the
Constitution of the International Labour Organization.
Article 10
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.
Article 11
At least once in ten years, 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 or
modification.
Article 12
The French and English texts of this Convention shall both be
authentic.
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