SCHEDULES

Preamble Section 2. FIRST SCHEDULEU.K.

Part IU.K.

Part IIU.K. Draft Convention fixing the Minimum Age for the Admission of Young Persons to Employment as Trimmers or Stokers

Article 1U.K.

For the purpose of this Convention, the term “vessel” includes all ships and boats, of any nature whatsoever, engaged in maritime navigation, whether publicly or privately owned, it excludes ships of war.

Article 2U.K.

Young persons under the age of eighteen years shall not be employed or work on vessels as trimmers or stokers.

Article 3U.K.

The provisions of Article 2 shall not apply:

Article 4U.K.

When a trimmer or stoker is required in a port where young persons of less than eighteen years of age only are available, such young persons may be employed and in that case it shall be necessary to engage two young persons in place of the trimmer or stoker required. Such young persons shall be at least sixteen years of age.

Article 5U.K.

In order to facilitate the enforcement of the provisions of this Convention, every shipmaster shall be required to keep a register of all persons under the age of eighteen years employed on board his vessel, or a list of them in the articles of agreement, and of the dates of their births.

Article 6U.K.

Articles of agreement shall contain a brief summary of the provisions of this Convention.

Article 11U.K.

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 of the corresponding Article of the other Treaties of Peace.

Part IIIU.K. Draft Convention concerning the Compulsory Medical Examination of Children and Young Persons Employed at Sea

Article 1U.K.

For the purpose of this Convention, the term “vessel” includes all ships and boats, of any nature whatsoever, engaged in maritime navigation, whether publicly or privately owned; it excludes ships of war.

Article 2U.K.

The employment of any child or young person under eighteen years of age on any vessel, other than vessels upon which only members of the same family are employed, shall be 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 3U.K.

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 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 4U.K.

In urgent cases, the competent authority may allow a 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.

Article 9U.K.

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 of the corresponding Articles of the other Treaties of Peace.

Section 6.

SECOND SCHEDULEU.K. 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.

. . . F1

The Irish Free State.

. . . F2