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Article 14 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 15 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 11 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 16 The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally authoritative. APPENDIX No. 3.—CONVENTION CONCERNING LABOUR CLAUSES IN PUBLIC CONTRACTS 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 Thirty-second Session on 8 June, 1949, and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals concerning labour clauses in public contracts, which is the sixth item on the Agenda of the session, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention, adopts this 29th day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine the following Convention, which may be cited as the Labour Clauses (Public Contracts) Convention, 1949 : Article 1 1. This Convention applies to contracts which fulfill the following conditions : (a) That one at least of the parties to the contracts is a public authority ; (b) That the execution of the contract involves — (i) The expenditure of funds by a public authority ; and (ii) The employment of workers by the other party to the contract; (c) That the contract is a contract for — (i) The construction, alteration, repair or demolition of public works ; (ii) The manufacture, assembly, handling or shipment of materials, supplies or equipment; or (iii) The performance or supply of services ; or (d) That the contract is awarded by a central authority of a member of the International Labour Organization for which the Convention is in force.

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