C116 - Final Articles Revision Convention, 1961 (No. 116)

C116 - Final Articles Revision Convention, 1961 (No. 116)

Convention concerning the Partial Revision of the Conventions Adopted by the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation at its First Thirty-two Sessions for the Purpose of Standardising the Provisions regarding the Preparation of Reports by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office on the Working of Conventions (Entry into force: 05 Feb 1962)Adoption: Geneva, 45th ILC session (26 Jun 1961) 

Preamble

The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,

Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Forty-fifth Session on 7 June 1961, and

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the partial revision of the Conventions adopted by the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation at its first thirty-two sessions for the purpose of standardising the provisions regarding the preparation of reports by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office on the working of Conventions, and

Considering that these proposals must take the form of an international Convention,

adopts this twenty-sixth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one the following Convention, which may be cited as the Final Articles Revision Convention, 1961:

Article 1

In the texts of the Conventions adopted by the International Labour Conference in the course of its first thirty-two sessions, the Final Article providing for the presentation by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office to the General Conference of a report on the working of the Convention shall be omitted and the following article shall be substituted for it:

"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 2

Any Member of the Organisation which, after the date of the coming into force of this Convention, communicates to the Director-General of the International Labour Office its formal ratification of any Convention adopted by the Conference in the course of its first thirty-two sessions shall be deemed to have ratified that Convention as modified by this Convention.

Article 3

Two copies of this Convention shall be authenticated by the signature of the President of the Conference and of the Director-General of the International Labour Office. Of these copies one shall be deposited in the archives of the International Labour Office and the other shall be communicated to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for registration in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations. The Director-General shall communicate a certified copy of this Convention to each of the Members of the International Labour Organisation.

Article 4

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

2. This Convention shall come into force at the date on which the ratifications of two Members of the International Labour Organisation have been received by the Director-General.

3. On the coming into force of this Convention and on the subsequent receipt of further ratifications of the Convention, the Director-General of the International Labour Office shall so notify all the Members of the International Labour Organisation and the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

4. Each Member of the Organisation which ratifies this Convention thereby recognises that the obligation of the Governing Body under Conventions adopted by the Conference at its first thirty-two sessions to present to the Conference at the intervals prescribed thereby a report on the working of each Convention and to examine at such intervals the desirability of placing on the agenda of the Conference the question of the revision of the Convention in whole or in part was replaced as from the first coming into force of this Convention by the provisions of the modified article set forth in Article 1 of this Convention.

Article 5

Notwithstanding anything contained in any of the Conventions adopted by the Conference in the course of its first thirty-two sessions the ratification of this Convention by a Member shall not ipso jure involve the denunciation of any such Convention, nor shall the entry into force of this Convention close any such Convention to further ratification.

Article 6

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 denunciation of this Convention 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 7

The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally authoritative