INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION
CONVENTION N 112
CONCERNING THE MINIMUM AGE FOR ADMISSION
TO EMPLOYMENT AS FISHERMEN
(Geneva,
19.VI.1959)
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-third Session on 3 June 1959, and
Having
decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the minimum age
for admission to employment as fishermen, which is included in the fifth item
on the agenda of the session, and
Having
determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international
Convention,
adopts
this nineteenth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and
fifty-nine the following Convention, which may be cited as the Minimum Age
(Fishermen) Convention, 1959:
1.
For the purpose of this Convention the term "fishing vessel" includes
all ships and boats, of any nature whatsoever, whether publicly or privately
owned, which are engaged in maritime fishing in salt waters.
2.
This Convention shall not apply to fishing in ports and harbours or in
estuaries of rivers, or to individuals fishing for sport or recreation.
1.
Children under the age of fifteen years shall not be employed or work on
fishing vessels.
2.
Provided that such children may occasionally take part in the activities on
board fishing vessels during school holidays, subject to the conditions that
the activities in which they are engaged -
(a) are not harmful to their
health or normal development;
(b) are not such as to
prejudice their attendance at school; and
(c) are not intended for
commercial profit.
3.
Provided further 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.
Young
persons under the age of eighteen years shall not be employed or work on
coal-burning fishing vessels as trimmers or stokers.
The
provisions of Articles 2 and 3 shall not apply to work done by children on
school-ships or training-ships, provided that such work is approved and
supervised by public authority.
The
formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the
Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.
1.
This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the International
Labour Organisation whose ratifications have been registered with the
Director-General.
2.
It shall come into force twelve months after the date on which the
ratifications of two Members have been registered with the Director-General.
3.
Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member twelve months
after the date on which its ratifications has been registered.
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.
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.
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.
At
such times as it may consider necessary the Governing Body of