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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 20 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 16 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 21 The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally authoritative. TEXT OF THE CONVENTION (No. 69 ) CONCERNING THE CERTIFICATION OF SHIPS' COOKS 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 ships' cooks, which is included in the fourth item on the agenda of the session, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an International Convention adopts this twenty-seventh day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six the following Convention which may be cited as the Certification of Ships' Cooks Convention, 1946 : Article 1 1. This Convention applies to seagoing vessels, whether publicly or privately owned, which are engaged in the transport of cargo or passengers for the purpose of trade and registered in a territory for which this Convention is in force. 2. National laws or regulations or, in the absence of such laws or regulations, collective agreements between employers and workers, shall determine the vessels or classes of vessels which are to be regarded as seagoing vessels for the purpose of this Convention. Article 2 For the purpose of this Convention the term " ship's cook " means the person directly responsible for the preparation of meals for . the crew of the ship. Article 3 1. No person shall be engaged as ship's cook on board any vessel to which this Convention applies unless he holds a certificate of qualification as ship's cook granted in accordance with the provisions of the following Articles. 2. Provided that the competent authority may grant exemptions from the provisions of this Article if in its opinion there is an inadequate supply of certificated ship's cooks.

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