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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 Sixty-second Session on 13 October 1976, and

 Recalling the provisions of the Seafarers' Engagement (Foreign Vessels) Recommendations, 1958, and of the Social Conditions and Safety (Seafarers) Recommendations, 1958, and

 Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to substandard vessels, particularly those registered under flags of convenience, which is the fifth item on the agenda of the session, and

 Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an International Convention,

 adopts this twenty-ninth day of October of the year one thousand nine hundred and seventy-six the following Convention, which may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976:

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