CONVENTION No. 7 Convention Fixing the Minimum Age for Admissionof Children to Employment at Sea
CONVENTION No. 7 Convention Fixing the Minimum Age for Admissionof Children to Employment at Sea
[Date of coming into force: 27 September 1921. The Convention wasrevised in 1936 by Convention 58.]
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The General Conference of the International Labour Organization,
Having been convened at Genoa by the Governing Body of the
International Labour Office, on the 15th day of June 1920, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to
the application to seamen of the Convention adopted at Washington last
November prohibiting the employment of children under fourteen years of
age, which is the third item in the agenda for the Genoa meeting of the
Conference, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an
international Convention, adopts the following Convention, which may be
cited as the Minimum Age (Sea) Convention, 1920, 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
Children under the age of fourteen years shall not be employed or work
on vessels, other than vessels upon which only members of the same family
are employed.
Article 3
The provisions of Article 2 shall not apply to work done by children
on school-ships or training-ships, provided that such work is approved and
supervised by public authority.
Article 4
In order to facilitate the enforcement of the provisions of this
Convention, every shipmaster shall be required to keep a register of all
persons under the age of sixteen years employed on board his vessel, or a
list of them in the articles of agreement, and of the dates of their
births.
Article 5
1. Each Member of the International Labour Organization which ratifies
this Convention engages to apply it to its colonies, protectorates and
possessions which are not fully self-governing-
(a) except where owing to the local conditions its provisions are
inapplicable; or
(b) subject to such modifications as may be necessary to adapt its
provisions to local conditions.
2. Each Member shall notify to the International Labour Office the
action taken in respect to each of its colonies, protectorates and
possessions which are not fully self-governing.
Article 6
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 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.
Article 8
This Convention shall come into force at the date on which such
notification is issued by the Director-General of the International Labour
Office, but it shall then be binding only upon those Members which have
registered their ratifications with the International Labour Office,
Thereafter this Convention will come into force for any other Member at
the date on which its ratification if registered with the International
Labour Office.
Article 9
Subject to the provisions of Article 8, each Member which ratifies
this Convention agrees to bring its provisions into operation not later
than 1 July 1922, and to take such action as may be necessary to make
these provisions effective.
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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