(d) any work or service exacted in cases of emergency, that is to say, in the event of war or of a calamity or threatened calamity, such as fire,
flood, famine, earthquake, violent epidemic or epizootic diseases, invasion by animal, insect or vegetable pests, and in general any
circumstance that would endanger the existence or the well-being of the whole or part of the population;
(e) minor communal services of a kind which, being performed by the members of the community in the direct interest of the said
community, can therefore be considered as normal civic obligations incumbent upon the members of the community, provided that the
members of the community or their direct representatives shall have the right to be consulted in regard to the need for such services.
Articles 3 to 24
[deleted pursuant to Article 7 of the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930]
Article 25
The illegal exaction of forced or compulsory labour shall be punishable as a penal offence, and it shall be an obligation on any Member ratifying
this Convention to ensure that the penalties imposed by law are really adequate and are strictly enforced.
Article 26
1. Each Member of the International Labour Organisation which ratifies this Convention undertakes to apply it to the territories placed under its
sovereignty, jurisdiction, protection, suzerainty, tutelage or authority, so far as it has the right to accept obligations affecting matters of internal
jurisdiction; provided that, if such Member may desire to take advantage of the provisions of article 35 of the Constitution of the International
Labour Organisation, it shall append to its ratification a declaration stating-(1) the territories to which it intends to apply the provisions of this Convention without modification;
(2) the territories to which it intends to apply the provisions of this Convention with modifications, together with details of the said
modifications;
(3) the territories in respect of which it reserves its decision.
2. The aforesaid declaration shall be deemed to be an integral part of the ratification and shall have the force of ratification. It shall be open to any
Member, by a subsequent declaration, to cancel in whole or in part the reservations made, in pursuance of the provisions of subparagraphs (2)
and (3) of this Article, in the original declaration.
Article 27
The formal ratifications of this Convention under the conditions set forth in the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation shall be
communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.
Article 28
1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members whose ratifications have been registered with the International Labour Office.
2. It shall come into force twelve months after the date on which the ratifications of two Members of the International Labour Organisation have
been registered with the Director-General.
3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member twelve months after the date on which the ratification has been registered.
Article 29
As soon as the ratifications of two Members of the International Labour Organisation have been registered with the International Labour Office,
the Director-General of the International Labour Office shall so notify all the Members of the International Labour Organisation. He shall likewise
notify them of the registration of ratifications which may be communicated subsequently by other Members of the Organisation.
Article 30
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 of the International Labour Office for registration. Such denunciation shall not
take effect until one year after the date on which it is registered with the International Labour Office.
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, will be bound for another period of five
years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the expiration of each period of five years under the terms provided for in this Article.
Article 31
At such times as it may consider necessary the Governing Body of the International Labour Office shall present to the General Conference a report
on the working of this Convention and shall examine the desirability of placing on the agenda of the Conference the question of its revision in