186 LAWS GOVERNING MARINE INSPECTION 



ARTICLE 7 



1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of 

 the International Labor Organization whose ratifications have been 

 registered with the Secretary-General. 



2. Subject to the provisions of Article 5 above it shall come into 

 force twelve months after the date on which the ratifications of two 

 Members have been registered with the Secretary-General. 



3. Thereafter this Convention shall come into force for any Member 

 twelve months after the date on which its ratification has been 

 registered. 



ARTICLE 8 



As soon as the ratifications of two Members of the International 

 Labor Organization have been registered, the Secretary-General of 

 the League of Nations shall so notify all the Members of the Inter- 

 national Labor Organization. He shall likewise notify them of the 

 registration of ratifications which may be communicated subsequently 

 by other Members of the Organization. 



ARTICLE 9 



1. A Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it 

 after the expiration of ten years from the date on which the Conven- 

 tion first comes into force by an act communicated to the Secretary- 

 General of the League of Nations 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 denuncia- 

 tion provided for in this Article, will be bound for another period of 

 ten years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the expira- 

 tion of each period of ten years under the terms provided for in this 

 Article. 



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. 



ARTICLE 11 



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 by a Member of tlie new re^nsing Convention 

 shall ipso jure involve the immediate denunciation of this Convention, 

 notwithstanding the provisions of Article above, if and when the 

 new revising Convention shall have come into force ; 



