ADOPTED: Done at Geneva, 7 June 1926

REFERENCE: REPATRIATION OF SEAMEN CONVENTION, 1926

ENTERED INTO FORCE: 16 April 1928

DEPOSITARY: ILO

SECRETARY: ILO

IMPLEMENTATION

SIGNATURE AND RATIFICATION

Article VII

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 IX

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 VIII

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 X

Subject to the provisions of Article VIII, each Member which ratifies this Convention agrees to bring the provisions of Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 into operation not later than 1 January 1928 and to take such action as may be necessary to make these provisions effective.

DENUNCIATION

Article XII

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 XI

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.