1 Amendments to any of the provisions of this
Convention may be adopted by the General Conference of the International
Labour Organization in the framework of article 19 of the Constitution
of the International Labour Organisation and the rules and procedures
of the Organization for the adoption of Conventions. Amendments to
the Code may also be adopted following the procedures in Article XV.
2 In the case of Members whose ratifications of
this Convention were registered before the adoption of the amendment,
the text of the amendment shall be communicated to them for ratification.
3 In the case of other Members of the Organization,
the text of the Convention as amended shall be communicated to them
for ratification in accordance with article 19 of the Constitution.
4 An amendment shall be deemed to have been accepted
on the date when there have been registered ratifications, of the
amendment or of the Convention as amended, as the case may be, by
at least 30 Members with a total share in the world gross tonnage
of ships of at least 33 per cent.
5 An amendment adopted in the framework of article
19 of the Constitution shall be binding only upon those Members of
the Organization whose ratifications have been registered by the Director-General
of the International Labour Office.
6 For any Member referred to in paragraph 2 of
this Article, an amendment shall come into force 12 months after the
date of acceptance referred to in paragraph 4 of this Article or 12
months after the date on which its ratification of the amendment has
been registered, whichever date is later.
7 Subject to paragraph 9 of this Article, for
Members referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article, the Convention
as amended shall come into force 12 months after the date of acceptance
referred to in paragraph 4 of this Article or 12 months after the
date on which their ratifications of the Convention have been registered,
whichever date is later.
8 For those Members whose ratification of this
Convention was registered before the adoption of an amendment but
which have not ratified the amendment, this Convention shall remain
in force without the amendment concerned.
9 Any Member whose ratification of this Convention
is registered after the adoption of the amendment but before the date
referred to in paragraph 4 of this Article may, in a declaration accompanying
the instrument of ratification, specify that its ratification relates
to the Convention without the amendment concerned. In the case of
a ratification with such a declaration, the Convention shall come
into force for the Member concerned 12 months after the date on which
the ratification was registered. Where an instrument of ratification
is not accompanied by such a declaration, or where the ratification
is registered on or after the date referred to in paragraph 4, the
Convention shall come into force for the Member concerned 12 months
after the date on which the ratification was registered and, upon
its entry into force in accordance with paragraph 7 of this Article,
the amendment shall be binding on the Member concerned unless the
amendment provides otherwise.