180 LAWS GOVERNING MARINE INSPECTION 



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ARTICLE 10 



At the expiration of each period of ten years after the coming into 

 force of this Convention, the Governing Body of the International 

 Labor Office shall present to the General Conference a report on the 

 working of this Convention and shall consider the desirability of 

 placing on the agenda of the Conference the question of its revision 

 in whole or in part. 



ARTic lp: 1 1 



1. Should the Conference adopt a new Convention revising this 

 Convention in whole or in part, then, unless the new Convention other- 

 wise provides, 



(a) The ratification hj a Member of the new revising Convention 

 shall ipso jure involve the immediate denunciation of this Convention, 

 notwithstanding the provisions of Article 7 above, if and when the 

 new revising Convention shall have cxjme 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 12 



The English and French versions of the text of this Convention 

 are equally authoritative. 



UNDERSTANDINGS BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 



The above convention was ratified by the United States Govern- 

 ment with the following Understandings: 



"It is the understanding of the Government of the United States of 

 America that nothing in this Convention will interfere with the prac- 

 tice in the United States of America of issuing limited certificates 

 as able seamen to persons of less service or training than prescribed 

 in the convention and of the signing of such person, who are consid- 

 ered as holding an intermediate rating which is outside the tenns 

 of the convention; and 



"It is the understanding of the Government of the United States 

 of America that this Convention shall apply to seagoing vessels only, 

 and for this purpose the words 'seagoing vessel' shall mean a merchant 

 vessel of more than 100 gross tons, which in the usual course of her 

 employment proceeds outside the line dividing the inland watei*s from 

 the high seas as defined under section 2 of the Act of P>biiiary' 19, 

 1895, 28 Stat. 672, as amended (U.S.C, title 33, sec. 151)." 



Record of certificates of service 

 46 U.S.C. 672(c) 



Each Coast Guard official shall keep a complete record of all 

 certificates of service issued by him and to wliom issued and shall 

 keep on file the affidavits and records of examinations ui)()n which 

 said certificates are issued. 



