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Article 13 1. The Director of the International Labour Office shall notify all the Members of the International Labour Organization of the registration of all ratifications and denunciations communicated to him by the Members of the Organization. 2. When notifying the Members of the Organization of the registration of the last of the ratifications required to bring the Convention into force, the Director shall draw the attention of the Members of the Organization to the date upon which the Convention will come into force. Article 14 The Director of the International Labour Office shall communicate to the SecretaryGeneral 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 15 At the expiration of each period of ten years after the coming into force of this Convention, the Governing Body of the International Labour 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 16 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 12 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. 2. This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its actual form and content for those Members which have ratified it but have not ratified the revising Convention. Article 17 The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally authoritative. TEXT OF THE CONVENTION (No. 74) CONCERNING THE CERTIFICATION OF ABLE SEAMEN The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, Having been convened at Seattle by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Twenty-eighth Session on 6 June 1946, and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the certification of able seamen, 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 twenty-ninth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six the following Draft Convention which may be cited as the Certification of Able Seamen Convention, 1946 : •

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