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INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION ACT 1973 - SCHEDULE 5
- Instrument for the Amendment of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation
Section 4
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-eighth Session on
17 June 1964, and
Having decided upon the inclusion in the Constitution
of the International Labour Organisation of a provision empowering the
Conference to expel or suspend from membership any Member which has been
expelled or suspended from membership of the United Nations, a question which
is the eleventh item on the agenda of the session,
adopts this ninth day of
July of the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four the following
instrument for the amendment of the Constitution of the International Labour
Organisation, which may be cited as the Constitution of the International
Labour Organisation Instrument of Amendment (No. 3), 1964.
Article 1
As
from the date of the coming into force of this Instrument of Amendment,
article 1 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation shall
be amended by the insertion after paragraph 5 of the following new paragraph,
the present paragraph 6 becoming paragraph 7:
"6. The General Conference of
the International Labour Organisation may, at any session in the agenda of
which the subject has been included and by a vote concurred in by two-thirds
of the delegates attending the session, including two-thirds of the Government
delegates present and voting, expel from membership of the International
Labour Organisation any Member which the United Nations has expelled therefrom
or suspend from the exercise of the rights and privileges of membership of the
International Labour Organisation any Member which the United Nations has
suspended from the exercise of the rights and privileges of membership;
suspension shall not affect the continued validity of the obligations of the
Member under the Constitution and Conventions to which it is a party."
Article 2
On the coming into force of this Instrument of Amendment, the
Director-General of the International Labour Office shall cause an official
text of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation as modified
by the provisions of this Instrument to be prepared in two original copies,
duly authenticated by his signature. One of these copies 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 the text to each of the
Members of the International Labour Organisation.
Article 3
Two copies of
this Instrument of Amendment shall be authenticated by the signature of the
President of the Conference and of the Director-General of the International
Labour Office. One of these copies 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 the Instrument to each of the Members of the
International Labour Organisation.
Article 4
1. The formal ratifications or
acceptances of this Instrument of Amendment shall be communicated to the
Director-General of the International Labour Office, who shall notify the
Members of the Organisation of the receipt thereof.
2. This Instrument of
Amendment will come into force in accordance with the provisions of article 36
of the Constitution of the Organisation.
3. On the coming into force of this
Instrument, 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.
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