The Ratification of Maritime Conventions
Chapter I.6.265
CONVENTION REVISING THE SEAFARERS’ IDENTITY DOCUMENTS CONVENTION (REVISED), 2003, AS AMENDED
Note: The present text incorporates the original text as modified by the following amendments:
| Date of entry | |
|---|---|
| into force | |
| —2016 amendments adopted by 105th Session (Annexes I, II and III) | 08.06.2017 |
ADOPTED: 19 June 2003
REFERENCE: Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003
ENTERED INTO FORCE: 9 February 2005
DEPOSITARY: ILO
SECRETARY: ILO
IMPLEMENTATION
RATIFICATION
Article XI
The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.
ENTRY INTO FORCE
Article XII
1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the International Labour Organization whose ratifications have been registered with the Director-General.
2. It shall come into force six months after the date on which the ratifications of two Members have been registered with the Director-General.
3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member six months after the date on which its ratification has been registered.
DENUNCIATION
Article XIII
1. A Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after the expiration of ten years from the date on which the Convention first comes into force, by an act communicated to the Director-General for registration. Such denunciation shall take effect until twelve months after the date on which it is registered.
2. Each Member which has ratified this Convention and which does not, within the year following the expiration of the period of ten years mentioned in the preceding paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation provided for in this Article, shall be bound for another period of ten years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the expiration of each period of ten years under the terms provided for in this Article.
AMENDMENTS
Article XVII
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 13, 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.