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.