CONVENTION No. 27 Convention concerning the Marking of the Weighton Heavy Packages Transported by Vessels
CONVENTION No. 27 Convention concerning the Marking of the Weighton Heavy Packages Transported by Vessels
[Date of coming into force: 9 March 1932.]
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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 Twelfth Session on 30
May 1929, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to
the marking of the weight on heavy packages transported by vessels, which
is included in the first item of the agenda of the Session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an
international Convention, adopts this twenty-first day of June of the
year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine the following Convention,
which may be cited as the Marking of Weight (Packages Transported by
Vessels) Convention, 1929, 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. Any package or object of one thousand kilograms (one metric ton) or
more gross weight consigned within the territory of any Member which
ratifies this Convention for transport by sea or inland waterway shall
have its gross weight plainly and durably marked upon it on the outside
before it is loaded on a ship or vessel.
2. In exceptional cases where it is difficult to determine the exact
weight, national laws or regulations may allow an approximate weight to be
marked.
3. The obligation to see that this requirement is observed shall rest
solely upon the Government of the country from which the package or object
is consigned and not on the Government of a country through which it
passes on the way to its destination.
4. It shall be left to national laws or regulations to determine
whether the obligation for having the weight marked as aforesaid shall
fall on the consignor or on some other person or body.
Article 2
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 3
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 Organization 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 4
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 5
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 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 6
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 7
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 5 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 8
The French and English texts of this Convention shall both be
authentic.
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 5
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 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 6
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 7
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 5 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 8
The French and English texts of this Convention shall both be
authentic.
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