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Minimum Age (Sea) Convention (Revised), 1936 



PROVISIONS OF DRAFT CONVENTION NO. 58 



ARTICLE 1 



For the purpose of this Convention, the term "vessel" includes 

 all ships and boats, of any nature whatsoever, engaged in maritime 

 navigation, whether publicly or privately owned; it excludes ships 

 of war. 



ARTICLE 2 



1. Children under the age of fifteen years shall not be employed 

 or work on vessels, other than vessels upon which only members of the 

 same family are employed. 



2. Provided that national laws or regulations may provide for the 

 issue in respect of children of not less than fourteen years of age 

 of certificates permitting them to be employed in cases in which an 

 educational or other appropriate authority designated by such laws 

 or regulations is satisfied, after having due regard to the health and 

 physical condition of the child and to the prospective as well as to 

 the immediate benefit to the child of the employment proposed, that 

 such employment will be beneficial to the child. 



ARTICLE 3 



The provisions of Article 2 shall not apply to work done by chil- 

 dren on school ships or training ships, provided that such work is 

 approved and supervised by public authority. 



ARTICLE 4 



In order to facilitate the enforcement of the provisions of this 

 Convention, every shipmaster shall be required to keep a register of 

 all persons under the age of sixteen years employed on board his 

 vessel, or a list of them in the articles of agreement, and of the dates 

 of their births. 



ARTICLE 5 



This Convention shall not come into force until after the adoption 

 by the International Labor Conference of a Draft Convention revis- 

 ing tlie Convention fixing the minimum age for admission of chil- 

 dren to industrial employment, 1919, and a Draft Convention revising 

 the Convention concerning the age for admission of children to 

 nonindustrial employment, 1932. 



ARTICLE 6 



The formal ratifications of this Convention sliall be communicated 

 to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations for registration. 



