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Article 23 For the purpose of giving mutual assistance in the enforcement of this Convention, every Member which ratifies the Convention undertakes to require the competent authority in every port in its territory to inform the consular or other appropriate a-uthority of any other such Member of any case in which it comes to the notice of such authority that the requirements of the Convention are not being complied with in a vessel registered in the territory of that other Member. Part Vl.—Final Provisions Article 24 For the purpose of Article 28 of the Hours of Work and Manning (Sea) Convention, 1936, the present Convention shall be regarded as a Convention revising that Convention. Article 25 The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the Director of the International Labour Office for registration. Article 26 1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the International Labour Organization whose ratifications have been registered with the Director. 2. It shall first come into force six months after the date at which the following conditions have been fulfilled : (a) The ratifications of nine of the following Members have been registered: United States of America, Argentine Republic, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, Yugoslavia ; ('b) At least five of the Members whose ratifications have been registered have at the date of registration each not less than one million gross register tons of shipping; (c) The aggregate tonnage of shipping possessed at the time of registration by the Members whose ratifications have been registered is not less than fifteen million gross register tons. 3. The provisions of the preceding paragraph are included for the purpose of facilitating and encouraging early ratification of the Convention by Member States. 4. After the Convention has first come into force, it shall come into force for any Member six months after the date on which its ratification has been registered. Article 27 1. A Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after the expiration of ten years from the date on which the Convention comes into force, by an act communicated to the Director 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 28 1. The Director of the International Labour Office shall notify all the Members of the International Labour Organization of the registration of all ratifications, declarations and denunciations to him by the Members of the Organization.

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