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 40
1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Members
of the International Labour Organisation of the registration of all ratifications 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 41
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 and acts of
denunciation registered by him in accordance with the provisions of the preceding
Articles.
Article 42
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 43
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 39 above, if and when the new revising Convention shall have
come 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.