Article 11
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.
Article 12
1. The Director‐General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Members of the
International Labour Organisation of the registration of all ratifications, declarations and
denunciations communicated to him by the Members of the Organisation.
2. When notifying the Members of the Organisation of the registration of the second
ratification communicated to him, the Director‐General shall draw the attention of the
Members of the Organisation to the date upon which the Convention will come into force.
Article 13
The Director‐General of the International Labour Office shall communicate to the Secretary‐
General of the United Nations for registration in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter
of the United Nations full particulars of all ratifications, declarations and acts of
denunciation registered by him in accordance with the provisions of the preceding articles.
Article 14
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 15
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
immediate denunciation of this Convention, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 11
above, if and when the new revising Convention shall have come into force;