第58号公约
颁布日期：19361024　实施日期：19390411　颁布单位：日内瓦

　　[Date of coming into force： 11 April 1939.]

　　The General Conference of the International Labour Organization，

　　Having been convened¹ at Geneva by the Governing Body of theInternational Labour Office， and having met in its Twenty-second Sessionon 22 October 1936， and

　　Having decided² upon the adoption³ of certain proposals with regard tothe partial revision of the Convention fixing the minimum age foradmission of children to employment at sea adopted by the Conference atits Second Session， the question forming the agenda of the presentSession， and

　　Considering that these proposals must take the form of aninternational Convention， adopts this twenty-fourth day of October of theyear one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six the following Convention，which may be cited as the Minimum Age （Sea） Convention （Revised）， 1936：

　　Article 1

　　For the purpose of this Convention， the term “vessel⁴” includes allships and boats， of any nature whatsoever⁵， engaged in maritime⁶ navigation，whether publicly or privately⁷ owned； it excludes ships of war.

　　Article 2

　　1. Children under the age of fifteen years shall not be employed orwork on vessels⁸， other than vessels upon which only members of the samefamily are employed.

　　2. Provided that national laws or regulations may provide for theissue in respect of children of not less than fourteen years of age ofcertificates permitting them to be employed in cases in which aneducational or other appropriate authority designated by such laws orregulations is satisfied， after having due regard to the health andphysical condition of the child and to the prospective⁹ as well as to theimmediate benefit to the child of the employment proposed， that suchemployment will be beneficial to the child.

　　Article 3

　　The provisions of Article 2 shall not apply to work done by childrenon school-ships or training-ships， provided that such work is approved andsupervised by public authority.

　　Article 4

　　In order to facilitate the enforcement of the provisions of thisConvention， every shipmaster shall be required to keep a register of allpersons under the age of sixteen years employed on board his vessel， or alist of them in the articles of agreement， and of the dates of theirbirths

　　。Article 5

　　This Convention shall not come into force until after the adoption bythe International Labour Conference of a Convention revising theConvention fixing the minimum age for admission of children to industrialemployment， 1919， and a Convention revising the Convention concerning theage for admission of children to non-industrial employment， 1932.

　　Article 6

　　The formal ratifications¹² of this Convention shall be communicated tothe Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration¹³.

　　Article 7

　　1. This Convention shall be binding¹⁴ only upon those Members of theInternational Labour Organization whose ratifications have been registeredwith the Director-General.

　　2. Subject to the provisions of Article 5 above it shall come intoforce twelve months after the date on which the ratifications of twoMembers have been registered with the DirectorGeneral.

　　3. Thereafter， this Convention shall come into force for any Membertwelve months after the date on which its ratification¹¹ has beenregistered.

　　Article 8

　　As soon as the ratifications of two Members of the InternationalLabour Organization have been registered， the Director-General of theInternational Labour Office shall so notify all the Members of theInternational Labour Organization. He shall likewise notify them of theregistration for ratifications which may be communicated subsequently byother Members of the Organization.

　　Article 9

　　1. A Member which has ratified¹⁵ this Convention may denounce it afterthe expiration¹⁶ of ten years from the date on which the Convention firstcomes into force， by an act communicated to the Director-General of theInternational Labour Office for registration. Such denunciation shall nottake effect until one year 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 yearsmentioned in the preceding paragraph， exercise the right of denunciationprovided for in this Article， will be bound for another period of tenyears and， thereafter， may denounce this Convention at the expiration ofeach period of ten years under the terms provided for in this Article.

　　Article 10

　　At such times as it may consider necessary the Governing Body of theInternational Labour Office shall present to the General Conference areport on the working of this Convention and shall examine thedesirability of placing on the agenda of the Conference the question ofits revision in whole or in part.

　　Article 11

　　1. Should the Conference adopt a new Convention revising thisConvention in whole or in part， then， unless the new Convention otherwiseprovides，

　　（a） the ratification by a Member of the new revising Conventionshall ipso jure involve the immediate¹⁰ denunciation of this Convention，notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9 above， if and when the newrevising Convention shall have come into force；

　　（b） as from the date when the new revising Convention comes intoforce， this Convention shall cease to be open to ratification by theMembers.

　　2. This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its actualform and content for those Members which have ratified it but have notratified the revising Convention.

　　Article 12

　　The French and English texts of this Convention shall both beauthentic