Convention C097 - Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 97)
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Constitution of the International Labour Organisation shall indicate -(a) the territories in respect of which the Member concerned undertakes that the provisions of the Convention and any or all of the Annexes shall
be applied without modification;
(b) the territories in respect of which it undertakes that the provisions of the Convention and any or all of the Annexes shall be applied subject to
modifications, together with details of the said modifications;
(c) the territories in respect of which the Convention and any or all of the Annexes are inapplicable and in such cases the grounds on which they
are inapplicable;
(d) the territories in respect of which it reserves its decision pending further consideration of the position.
2. The undertakings referred to in subparagraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph 1 of this Article shall be deemed to be an integral part of the ratification and
shall have the force of ratification.
3. Any Member may at any time by a subsequent declaration cancel in whole or in part any reservations made in its original declaration in virtue of
subparagraph (b), (c) or (d) of paragraph 1 of this Article.
4. Any Member may, at any time at which the Convention is subject to denunciation in accordance with the provisions of Article 17, communicate to
the Director-General a declaration modifying in any other respect the terms of any former declaration and stating the present position in respect of
such territories as it may specify.
Article 16
1. Declarations communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office in accordance with paragraph 4 or 5 of Article 35 of the
Constitution of the International Labour Organisation shall indicate whether the provisions of the Convention and any or all of the Annexes will be
applied in the territory concerned without modification or subject to modifications; and if the declaration indicates that the provisions of the
Convention and any or all of the Annexes will be applied subject to modifications, it shall give details of the said modifications.
2. The Member, Members or international authority concerned may at any time by a subsequent declaration renounce in whole or in part the right to
have recourse to any modification indicated in any former declaration.
3. The Member, Members or international authority concerned may, at any time at which this Convention and any or all of the Annexes are subject to
denunciation in accordance with the provisions of Article 17, communicate to the Director-General a declaration modifying in any other respect the
terms of any former declaration and stating the present position in respect of the application of the Convention.
Article 17
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.
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
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