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Article 3 1. Young persons under eighteen years of age shall not be employed or work during the night in any public or private industrial undertaking or in any branch thereof except as hereinafter provided for. 2. For purposes of apprenticeship or vocational training in specified industries or occupations which are required to be carried on continuously, the competent authority may, after consultation with the employers' and workers' organizations concerned, authorize the employment in night work of young persons who have attained the age of sixteen years but are under the age- of eighteen years. 3. Young persons employed in night work in virtue of the preceding paragraph shall be granted a rest period of at least thirteen consecutive hours between two working periods. 4. Where night work in the baking industry is prohibited for all workers, the interval between nine o'clock in the evening and four o'clock in the morning may, for purposes of apprenticeship or vocational training of young persons who have attained the age of sixteen years, be substituted by the competent authority for the interval of at least seven consecutive hours falling between ten o'clock in the evening and seven o'clock in the morning prescribed by the authority in virtue of paragraph 3 of Article 2. Article 4 1. In countries where the climate renders work by day particularly trying, the night period and barred interval may be shorter than that prescribed in the above articles if compensatory rest is accorded during the day. 2. The provisions of Articles 2 and 3 shall not apply to the night work of young persons between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years in case of emergencies which could not have been controlled or foreseen, which are not of a periodical character, and which interfere with the normal working of the industrial undertaking. Article 5 The prohibition of night work may be suspended by the Government, for young persons between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years, when in case of serious emergency the public interest demands it. Article 6 1. The laws or regulations giving effect to the provisions of this Convention shall (a) Make appropriate provision for ensuring that they are known to the persons concerned ; (b) Define the persons responsible for compliance therewith ; (c) Prescribe adequate penalties for any violation thereof; (d) Provide for the maintenance of a system of inspection adequate to ensure effective enforcement; and (e) Require every employer in a public or private industrial undertaking to keep a register, or to keep available official records, showing the names and dates of birth of all persons under eighteen years of age employed by him and such other pertinent information as may be required by the competent authority. 2. The annual reports submitted by members under Article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization shall contain full information concerning such laws and regulations and a general survey of the results of the inspections made in accordance therewith.

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