ADOPTED: Done at Geneva, 22 October 1996

REFERENCE: SEAFARERS’ HOURS OF WORK AND THE MANNING OF SHIPS CONVENTION, 1996

ENTERED INTO FORCE: 8 August 2002

DEPOSITARY: ILO

SECRETARY: ILO

IMPLEMENTATION

SIGNATURE AND RATIFICATION

Article XVII

The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.

ENTRY INTO FORCE

Article XVIII

1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the International Labour Organization whose ratifications have been registered with the Director-General of the International Labour Office.

2. This Convention shall come into force six months after the date on which the ratifications of five Members, three of which each have at least one million gross tonnage of shipping, have been registered with the Director-General of the International Labour Office.

3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member six months after the date on which its ratification has been registered.

DENUNCIATION

Article XIX

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.

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.