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including proprietors as well as workers, engaged in the making of such products ; but it does not apply to the making of such products by members of the same household for their own consumption. This convention has no application to the wholesale manufacture of biscuits. Each member may, after consultation with the employers' and workers' organizations concerned, determine what products are to be included in the term " biscuits " for the purpose of this convention. Article 2.—For the purpose of this convention the term " night " signifies a period of at least seven consecutive hours. The beginning and end of this period shall be fixed by the competent authority in each country after consultation with the organizations of employers and workers concerned, and the period shall include the interval between eleven o'clock in the evening and five o'clock in the morning. When it is required by the climate or season, or when it is agreed between the employers' and workers' organizations concerned, the interval between ten o'clock in the evening and four o'clock in the morning may be substituted for the interval between eleven o'clock in the evening and five o'clock in the morning. Article 3. —After consultation with the employers' and the workers' organizations concerned, the competent authority in each country may make the following exceptions to the provisions of Article 1 :— (a.) The permanent exceptions necessary for the execution of preparatory or complementary work as far as it must necessarily be carried on outside the normal hours of work, provided that no more than the strictly necessary number of workers and that no young persons under the age of eighteen years shall be employed in such work : (b.) The permanent exceptions necessary for requirements arising from the particular circumstances of the baking industry in tropical countries : (c.) The permanent exceptions necessary for the arrangement of the weekly rest: (d.) The temporary exceptions necessary to enable establishments to deal with unusual pressure of work or national necessities. Article 4.—Exceptions may also be made to the provisions of Article 1 in case of accident, actual or threatened, Or in case of urgent work to be done to machinery or plant, or in case of force majeure, but only so far as may be necessary to avoid serious interference with the ordinary working of the undertaking. Article s.—Each member which ratifies this convention shall take appropriate measures to ensure that the prohibition prescribed in Article 1 is effectively enforced, and shall enable the employers, the workers, and their respective organizations to co-operate in such measures, in conformity with the recommendation adopted by the International Labour Conference at its fifth session (1923). Article 6. —The provisions of this convention shall not take effect until Ist January, 1927. Article 7. —The formal ratifications of this convention under the conditions set forth in Part XIII of the Treaty of Versailles and in the-corresponding parts of the other Treaties of Peace shall be communicated to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations for registration. Article 8. —This convention shall come into force at the date on which the ratifications of two members of the International Labour Organization have been registered by the Secretary-General. It shall be binding only upon those members whose ratifications have been registered with the Secretariat. Thereafter the convention shall come into force for any member at the date on which its ratification has been registered with the Secretariat. Article 9. —As soon as the ratifications of two members of the International Labour Organization have been registered with the Secretariat, the Secretary-General of the League of Nations shall so notify all the members of the International Labour Organization. He shall likewise notify them of the registration of ratifications which may be communicated subsequently by other members of the organization. Article 10.—Each member of the International Labour Organization which ratifies this convention engages to apply it to its colonies, possessions, and protectorates, in accordance with the provisions of Article 421 of the Treaty of Versailles and of the corresponding articles of the other Treaties of Peace. Article 11. —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 Secretary-General of the League of Nations for registration. Such denunciation shall not take effect until one year after the date on which it is registered with, the Secretariat. Article 12. —At least once in ten years the governing body of the International Labour Office shall present to the General Conference a report on the working of this convention, and shall consider the desirability of placing on the agenda of the Conference the question of its revision or modification. Article 13.—The French and English texts of this convention shall both be authentic. The foregoing is the authentic text of the draft convention duly adopted by the General Conference of the International Labour Organization during its seventh session, which was held at Geneva and declared closed the 10th day of June, 1925. In faith whereof we have appended our signatures this 24th day of June, 1925. The President of the Conference : Db. Edvard Benes. The Director of the International Labour Office : Albert Thomas.

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