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Article 22 1. Declarations communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 1 of this Convention shall indicate whether the provisions of the Convention will be applied in the territory concerned without modification or subject to modifications. When the declaration indicates that the provisions of the Convention will be applied subject to modifications it shall give details of the said modifications. 2. The member, members, or international authority concerned may at any time by a subsequent declaration renounce in whole or in part the right to have recourse to any modification indicated in any former declaration. 3. The member, members, or international authority concerned may, at any time at which this Convention is subject to denunciation in accordance with the provisions of Article 27, communicate to the Director-General a declaration modifying in any other respect the terms of any former declaration and stating the present position in respect of the application of the Convention. Article 23 In respect of each territory for which there is in force a declaration specifying modifications of the provisions of this Convention, the annual reports on the application of the Convention shall indicate the extent to which any progress has been made with a view to making it possible to renounce the right to have recourse to the said modifications. Article 24 If any Convention concerning any subject or subjects dealt with in this Convention so provides, such provisions of this Convention as may be specified in the said Convention shall cease to apply to any territory in respect of which there has been communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office a declaration—(a) Undertaking that the provisions of the said Convention shall be applied in pursuance of paragraph 2 of Article 35 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization as amended by the Constitution of the International Labour Organization Instrument of Amendment, 1946 ; or (b) Accepting the obligations of the said Convention in pursuance of paragraph 5 of the said Article 35. Part IX.—Final Provisions Article 2-5 The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the DirectorGeneral 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-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 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 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.

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