Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of
the International Labour Office and having met in its Eighty-fourth
Session on 8 October 1996, and
Noting the changes in the nature of the shipping industry
and, as a consequence thereof, the changes in seafarers' working and
living conditions since the Labour Inspection (Seamen) Recommendation,
1926, was adopted, and
Recalling the provisions of the Labour Inspection Convention
and Recommendation, 1947, the Labour Inspection (Mining and Transport)
Recommendation, 1947, and the Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards)
Convention, 1976, and
Recalling the entry into force of the United Nations Convention
on the Law of the Sea, 1982, on 16 November 1994, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with
regard to the revision of the Labour Inspection (Seamen) Recommendation,
1926, which is the first item on the agenda of the session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form
of an international Convention for flag State implementation only;
adopts, this twenty-second day of October of the year one
thousand nine hundred and ninety-six, the following Convention, which
may be cited as the Labour Inspection (Seafarers) Convention, 1996: