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Article 25 At the expiration of each period of ten years after the coming into force of thisConvention, 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 26 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 22 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 27 The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally authoritative. APPENDIX No. 6. —RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF WAGES 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 the protection of wages, which is the seventh item on the Agenda of the session, and Having decided that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation supplementing the Protection of Wages Convention, 1949, adopts this Ist day of July of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Protection of Wages Recommendation, 1949 : The Conference recommends that each member should apply the following provisions as rapidly as national conditions allow and report to the International' Labour Office as requested by the Governing Body concerning the measures taken to give effect thereto. I. Deductions from Wages 1. All necessary measures should be taken to limit deductions from wages to the extent deemed to be necessary to safeguard the maintenance of the worker and his family. 2. (1) Deductions from wages for the reimbursement of loss of or damage to the products, goods or installations of the employer should be authorized only when loss or damage has been caused for which the worker concerned can be clearly shown to be responsible.

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