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Article 6 Subject to the provisions of paragraph 7 of Article 3 any agreement to relinquish the right to an annual vacation holiday with pay, or to forgo such a vacation holiday, shall be void. Article 7 A person who leaves or is discharged from the service of his employer before he has taken a vacation holiday due to him shall receive in respect of every day of vacation holiday due to him in virtue of this Convention the remuneration provided for in Article 5. Article 8 Each member which ratifies this Convention shall ensure the effective application of its provisions. Article 9 Nothing in this Convention shall affect any law, award, custom or agreement between shipowners and seamen which ensures more favourable conditions than those provided by this Convention. Article 10 1. Effect may be given to this Convention by (a) laws or regulations ; (b) collective agreements between shipowners and seafarers ; or (c) a combination of laws or regulations and collective agreements between employers and workers. Except as may be otherwise provided herein, the provisions of this Convention shall be made applicable to every vessel registered in the territory of the ratifying Member and to every person engaged on any such vessel. 2. Where effect has been given to any provision of this Convention by a collective agreement in pursuance of paragraph 1 of this Article, then, notwithstanding anything contained in Article 8 of this Convention, the Member in whose territory the agreement is in force shall not be required to take any measures in pursuance of Article 8 in respect of the provisions of the Convention to which effect has been given by collective agreement. 3. Each Member ratifying this Convention shall supply to the Director of the International Labour Office information on the measures by which the Convention is applied, including particulars of any collective agreements which give effect to #ny of its provisions and are in force at the date when the Member ratifies the Convention. 4. Each Member ratifying this Convention undertakes to take part, by means of a tripartite delegation, in any committee representative of governments and shipowners' and seafarers' organizations and including in an advisory capacity representatives of the Joint Maritime Commission of the International Labour Office which may be set up for the purpose of examining the measures taken to give effect to the Convention. 5. The Director will lay before the said committee a summary of the information received by him under paragraph 3 above. 6. The committee shall consider whether the collective agreements reported to it give full effect to the provisions of this Convention. Each Member ratifying the Convention undertakes to give consideration to any observations or suggestions concerning the application of the Convention made by the committee and further undertakes to bring to the notice of the organizations of shipowners and seafarers who are parties to any of the collective agreements mentioned in paragraph 1 any observations or suggestions of the aforesaid committee concerning the degree: which such agreements give effect to the provisions of the Convention. Article 11 For the purpose of Article 17 of the Holidays with Pay (Sea) Convention, 1936, the present Convention shall be regarded as a Convention revising that Convention.

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