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Article 11 Fee-charging employment agencies not conducted with a view to profit as defined in paragraph 1 (b) of Article 1— (a) Shall be required to have an authorization from the competent authority and shall be subject to the supervision of the said authority ; (b) Shall not make any charge in excess of the scale of charges submitted to and approved by the competent authority or fixed by the said authority with strict regard to the expenses incurred ; and (c) Shall only place or recruit workers abroad if permitted so to do by the competent authority and under conditions determined by the laws or regulations in force. Article 12 The competent authority shall take the necessary steps to satisfy itself that non-fee- ' Charging employment agencies carry on their operations gratuitously. Article 13 Appropriate penalties, including the withdrawal when necessary of the licences and authorizations provided for by this Convention, shall be prescribed for any violation of the provisions of this Part of the Convention or of any laws or regulations given effect to them. Article 14 There shall be included in the annual reports to be submitted under Article 22 of the ■Constitution of the International Labour Organization all necessary information concerning the arrangements for supervision by the competent authority of the activities of fee-charging employment agencies including more particularly agencies conducted with a view to profit. Part IV. —Miscellaneous Provisions Article 15 1. In the case of a member the territory of which includes large areas, where by reason of the sparseness of the population or the stage of development of the area, the competent authority considers it impracticable to enforce the provisions of this Convention, the authority may exempt such areas from the application of this Convention either generally or with such exceptions in respect of particular undertakings or occupations as it thinks fit. 2. Each member shall indicate in its first annual report upon the application of this Convention submitted under Article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization any areas in respect of which it proposes to have recourse to the provisions •of the present Article and shall give the reasons for which it proposes to have recourse thereto ; no member shall, after the date of its first annual report, have recourse to the provisions of the present Article except in respect of areas so indicated. 3. Each member having recourse to the provisions of the present Article shall indicate in subsequent annual reports any areas in respect of which it renounces the right to have recourse to the provisions of the present Article.

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