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Article 20. 1. The expenses of the journey of recruited workers to the place of employment including all expenses incurred for their protection during the journey, shall be borne by the recruiter or employer. 2. The recruiter or employer shall furnish recruited workers with everything necessary for their welfare during the journey to the place of employment, including particularly, as local circumstances may require, adequate and suitable supplies of food, drinking-water, fuel, and cooking-utensils, clothing, and blankets. 3. This Article applies to workers recruited by worker-recruiters only to the extent to which its application is considered possible by the competent authority. Article 21. Any recruited worker who — (a) Becomes incapacitated by sickness or accident during the journey to the place of employment; (b) Is found on medical examination to be unfit for employment; (c) Is not engaged after recruiting for a reason for which he is not responsible ; or (d) Is found by the competent authority to have been recruited by misrepresentation or mistake ; shall be repatriated at the expense of the recruiter or employer. Article 22. The competent authority shall limit the amount which may be paid to recruited workers in respect of advances of wages, and shall regulate the conditions under which such advances may be made. Article 23. Where the families of recruited workers have been authorized to accompany the workers to the place of employment the competent authority shall take all necessary measures for safeguarding their health and welfare during the journey and more particularly— (a) Articles 19 and 20 of this Convention shall apply to such families ; (b) In the event of the worker being repatriated in virtue of Article 21, his family shall also be repatriated ; and (c) In the event of the death of the worker during the journey to the place of employment, his family shall be repatriated. Article 24. 1. Before permitting the recruiting of workers for employment in a territory under a different administration, the competent authority of the territory of recruiting shall satisfy itself that all necessary measures have been taken for the protection of the recruited workers in accordance with the provisions of this Convention when the workers have travelled beyond its jurisdiction. 2. Where workers are recruited in one territory for employment in a territory under a different administration and the circumstances and amount of recruiting appear to the competent authorities concerned to necessitate such action, the said authorities shall enter into agreements defining the extent to which such recruiting is to be permitted and providing for co-operation between them in supervising the execution of the conditions of recruiting and employment. 3. The recruiting of workers in one territory for employment in a territory under a different administration shall be undertaken only under license issued by the competent authority of the territory of recruiting : Provided that the said authority may accept as equivalent to a license issued by it, a license issued by the competent authority of the territory of employment. 4. Where the circumstances and the amount of recruiting for employment in a territory under a different administration appear to the competent authority of the territory of recruiting to necessitate such action, the said authority shall provide that such recruiting may only be undertaken by' organizations approved by it. Article 25. 1. In respect of the territories referred to in Article 35 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization, each Member of the Organization which ratifies this Convention shall append to its ratification a declaration stating— (a) The territories to which it undertakes to apply the provisions of the Convention without modification : (b) The territories to which it undertakes to apply the provisions of the Convention subject to modifications, together with details of the said modifications : (c) The territories to which the Convention is inapplicable, and in such cases the grounds on which it is inapplicable : (d) The territories in respect of which it reserves its decision. 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 by a subsequent declaration cancel in whole or in part any reservations made in its original declaration in virtue of subparagraphs (b), (c), or (d) of paragraph lof this Article.

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