CONVENTION No. 19 Convention concerning Equality of Treatment forNational and Foreign Workers as regards Workmen's Compensation for Acci-dents
CONVENTION No. 19 Convention concerning Equality of Treatment forNational and Foreign Workers as regards Workmen's Compensation for Acci-dents
[Date of coming into force: 8 September 1926.]
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 Seventh Session on 19
May 1925, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to
the equality of treatment for national and foreign workers as regards
workmen's compensation for accidents, the second item in the agenda of
the Session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an
international Convention. adopts this fifth day of June of the year one
thousand nine hundred and twenty-five the following Convention, which may
be cited as the Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation) Convention,
1925, 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
1. Each Member of the International Labour Organization which ratifies
this Convention undertakes to grant to the nationals of any other Member
which shall have ratified the Convention, who suffer personal injury due
to industrial accidents happening in its territory, or to their
dependants, the same treatment in respect of workmen's compensation as it
grants to its own nationals.
2. This equality of treatment shall be guaranteed to foreign workers
and their dependants without any condition as to residence. With regard to
the payments which a Member or its nationals would have to make outside
that Member's territory in the application of this principle, the
measures to be adopted shall be regulated, if necessary, by special
arrangements between the Members concerned.
Article 2
Special agreements may be made between the Members concerned to
provide that compensation for industrial accidents happening to workers
whilst temporarily or intermittently employed in the territory of one
Member on behalf of an undertaking situated in the territory of another
Member shall be governed by the laws and regulations of the latter Member.
Article 3
The Members which ratify this Convention and which do not already
possess a system, whether by insurance or otherwise, of workmen's
compensation for industrial accidents agree to institute such a system
within a period of three years from the date of their ratification.
Article 4
The Members which ratify this Convention further undertake to afford
each other mutual assistance with a view to facilitating the application
of the Convention and the execution of their respective laws and
regulations on workmen's compensation and to inform the International
Labour Office, which shall inform the other Members concerned, of any
modifications in the laws and regulations in force on workmen's
compensation.
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 1927, 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 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 12
The French and English texts of this Convention shall both be
authentic.
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