CONVENTION No. 69 Convention concerning Certification of Ship'sCooks
CONVENTION No. 69 Convention concerning Certification of Ship'sCooks
[Date of coming into force: 22 April 1953.]
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The General Conference of the International Labour Organization,
Having been convened at Seattle by the Governing Body of the
International Labour Office, and having met in its Twenty-eighth Session
on 6 June 1946, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to
the certification of ships' cooks, which is included in the fourth item on
the agenda of the Session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an
international Convention, adopts this twenty-seventh day of June of the
year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six the following Convention,
which may be cited as the Certification of Ships' Cooks Convention, 1946:
Article 1
1. This Convention applies to sea-going vessels, whether publicly or
privately owned, which are engaged in the transport of cargo or
passengers for the purpose of trade and registered in a territory for
which this Convention is in force.
2. National laws or regulations or, in the absence of such laws or
regulations, collective agreements between employers and workers shall
determine the vessels or classes of vessels which are to be regarded as
sea-going vessels for the purpose of this Convention.
Article 2
For the purpose of this Convention the term "ship's cook" means the
person directly responsible for the preparation of meals for the crew of
the ship.
Article 3
1. No person shall be engaged as ship's cook on board any vessel to
which this Convention applies unless he holds a certificate of
qualification as ship's cook granted in accordance with the provisions of
the following articles.
2. Provided that the competent authority may grant exemptions from the
provisions of this Article if in its opinion there is an inadequate supply
of certificated ships' cooks.
Article 4
1. The competent authority shall make arrangements for the holding of
examinations and for the granting of certificates of qualification.
2. No person shall be granted a certificate of qualification unless-
(a) he has reached a minimum age to be prescribed by the competent
authority;
(b) he has served at sea for a minimum period to be prescribed by
the competent authority; and
(c) he has passed an examination to be prescribed by the competent
authority.
3. The prescribed examination shall provide a practical test of the
candidate's ability to prepare meals; it shall also include a test of his
knowledge of food values, the drawing up of varied and properly balanced
menus, and the handling and storage of food on board ship.
4. The prescribed examination may be conducted and certificates
granted either directly by the competent authority or, subject to its
control, by an approved school for the training of cooks or other approved
body.
Article 5
Article 3 of this Convention shall apply after the expiration of a
period not exceeding three years from the date of entry into force of the
Convention for the territory where the vessel is registered: Provided
that, in the case of a seaman who has had a satisfactory record of two
years' service as cook before the expiration of the aforesaid period,
national laws or regulations may provide for the acceptance of a
certificate of such service as equivalent to a certificate of
qualification.
Article 6
The competent authority may provide for the recognition of
certificates of qualification issued in other territories.
Article 7
The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to
the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.
Article 8
1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the
International Labour Organization whose ratifications have been registered
with the Director-General.
2. It shall come into force six months after the date on which there
have been registered ratifications by nine of the following countries:
United States of America, Argentine Republic, Australia, Belgium, Brazil,
Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey and Yugoslavia, including at
least five countries each of which has at least one million gross register
tons of shipping. This provision is included for the purpose of
facilitating and encouraging early ratification of the Convention by
Member States.
3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member
six months after the date on which its ratification has been registered.
Article 9
1. A Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after
the expiration of ten years from the date on which the Convention 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 10
1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall
notify all the Members of the International Labour Organization of the
registration of all ratifications and denunciations communicated to him by
the Members of the Organization.
2. When notifying the Members of the Organization of the registration
of the last of the ratifications required to bring the Convention into
force, the Director-General shall draw the attention of the Members of the
Organization to the date upon which the Convention will come into force.
Article 11
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 12
At the expiration of each period of ten 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 13
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 9 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 14
The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are
equally authoritative.
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