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which only members of the same family are employed, shall be A.D. 1924. conditional on the production of a medical certificate attesting fitness for such work, signed by a doctor who shall be approved by the competent authority.

ARTICLE 3.

The continued employment at sea of any such child or young person shall be subject to the repetition of such medical examination at intervals of not more than one year, and the production, after each such examination, of a further medical 10 certificate attesting fitness for such work. Should a medical certificate expire in the course of a voyage, it shall remain in force until the end of the said voyage.

ARTICLE 4.

In urgent cases, the competent authority may allow a 15 young person below the age of eighteen years to embark without having undergone the examination provided for in Articles 2 and 3 of this Convention, always provided that such an examination shall be undergone at the first port at which the vessel calls.

Each member of the International Labour Organisation which ratifies this Convention engages to apply it to its colonies, possessions and protectorates, in accordance with the provisions of Article 421 of the Treaty of Versailles and 25 of the corresponding Articles of the other Treaties of Peace.

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DOMINIONS TO WHICH ACT MAY NOT BE APPLIED BY
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

British India.

The Dominion of Canada.

The Commonwealth of Australia (including Papua and Norfolk Island).

The Dominion of New Zealand.

The Union of South Africa.

The Irish Free State.

Newfoundland.

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ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES.

Clause.

1. Amendment of s. 158 of Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.

2. Employment of young persons as trimmers or stokers.

3. Medical examination of young persons.

4. Penalties.

5. Interpretation.

6. Power to apply Act to British possessions.

7. Short title and construction.

SCHEDULES.

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BILL

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INTITULED

An Act to give effect to certain Draft Conventions A.D. 1924. adopted by the International Labour Conference relating respectively to an unemployment indemnity for seamen in the case of loss or foundering of their ship, the minimum age for the admission of young persons to employment as trimmers and stokers, and the compulsory medical examination of children and young persons employed at sea.

WHEREAS at Genoa the General Conference of the

International Labour Organisation of the League of Nations on the ninth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty, adopted a draft convention concerning 5 unemployment indemnity for seamen in case of loss or foundering of their ship, and at Geneva on the eleventh day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, adopted two other draft conventions, namely, a draft convention fixing the minimum age for the admission of young 10 persons to employment as trimmers and stokers, and a draft convention concerning the compulsory medical examination of children and young persons employed

at sea:

And whereas the said draft conventions contain 15 (together with other provisions) the provisions set out in Parts I., II. and III. respectively of the First Schedule to this Act:

And whereas it is expedient that for the purpose of giving effect to the said draft conventions such provision 20 should be made as is contained in this Act: