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Article 16 The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall communicate to the Secretary-General 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 17 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 18 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 14 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 19 The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally authoritative. APPENDIX 4,—TEXT OF THE CONVENTION CONCERNING LABOUR INSPECTORATES IN NON-METROPOLITAN TERRITORIES The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its thirtieth session on 19 June, 1947, and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals concerning labour inspectorates in non-metropolitan territories, which is included in the third item on the agenda of the session, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention, adopts, this eleventh day of July of the year one thousand nine hundred and fortyseven, the following Convention, which may be cited as the Labour Inspectorates (Non-metropolitan Territories) Convention, 1947. Article 1 Labour inspection services complying with the requirements of Articles 2 to 5 of this Convention shall be maintained in non-metropolitan territories. Article 2 Labour inspection services shall consist of suitably trained inspectors. 2—A 7

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