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Article 2 1. Personal effects belonging to migrants for employment and members of their families who have been authorized to accompany or join them shall be exempt from Customs duties on the return of the said persons to their country of origin if such persons have retained the nationality of that country at the time of their return there. 2. Portable hand-tools and portable equipment of the kind normally owned by workers for the carrying out of their particular trades belonging to migrants for employment and members of their families who have been authorized to accompany or join them shall be exempt from Customs duties on return of the said persons to their country of origin if such persons have retained the nationality of that country at the time of their return there and if such tools and equipment can be shown at the time of importation to be in their actual ownership or possession, to have been in their possession and use for an appreciable time, and to be intended to be used by them in the course of their occupation. APPENDIX No. 10.—RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING MIGRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT (REVISED 1949) 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 with regard to the revision of the Migration for Employment Recommendation, 1939, and the Migration for Employment (Co-operation between States) Recommendation, 1939, adopted by the Conference at its Twenty-fifth Session, which are included in the eleventh item on the agenda of the session, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation, 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 Migration for Employment Recommendation (Revised), 1949 : The Conference, Having adopted the Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949, and Desiring to supplement its provisions by a Recommendation ; Recommends as follows : 1. For the purpose of this Recommendation — (a) The term " migrant for employment " means a person who migrates from one country to another with a view to being employed otherwise than on his own account and includes any person regularly admitted as a migrant for employment; (b) The term " recruitment " means — (i) The engagement of a person in one territory on behalf of an employer in another territory, or (ii) The giving of an undertaking to a person in one territory to provide him with employment in another territory, together with the making of any arrangements in connection with the operations mentioned in (i) and (ii) including the seeking for and selection of emigrants and the preparation for departure of the emigrants ;

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