The Ratification of Maritime Conventions
Chapter I.6.50
CONVENTION CONCERNING THE COMPULSORY MEDICAL EXAMINATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS EMPLOYED AT SEA, 1921
ADOPTED: Done at Geneva on 25 October 1921
REFERENCE: MEDICAL EXAMINATION OF YOUNG PERSONS (SEA) CONVENTION, 1921
ENTERED INTO FORCE: 20 November 1922
DEPOSITARY: ILO
SECRETARY: ILO
IMPLEMENTATION
SIGNATURE AND RATIFICATION
Article V
The formal ratifications of this Convention, under the conditions set forth in the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, shall be communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.
Article VII
As soon as ratifications of two Members of the International Labour Organisation 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 Organisation. He shall likewise notify them of the registration of ratifications which may be communicated subsequently by other Members of the Organisation.
ENTRY INTO FORCE
Article VI
1. This Convention shall come into force at the date on which the ratifications of two Members of the International Labour Organisation 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 VIII
Subject to the provisions of Article VI, 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.
DENUNCIATION
Article X
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.
TERRITORIAL APPLICATION
Article IX
Each Member of the International Labour Organisation which ratifies this Convention engages to apply it to its colonies, possessions and protectorates in accordance with the provisions of Article XXXV of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation.