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4. Every employer in an undertaking to which this Article applies shall keep a register of all persons under the age of sixteen employed by him, together with such evidence of their age as may be required by the competent authority. Article 9. 1. The International Labour Conference may, at any session at which the matter is included in its agenda, adopt by a two-thirds majority draft amendments to any one or more of the preceding Articles of Part II of this Convention. 2. Any such draft amendment shall state the member or members to which it applies, and shall, within the period of one year, or, in exceptional circumstances, of eighteen months, from the closing of the session of the Conference, be submitted by the member or members to which it applies to the authority or authorities within whose competence the matter lies, for the enactment of legislation or other action. 3. Each such member will, if it obtains the consent of the authority or authorities within whose competence the matter lies, communicate the formal ratification of the amendment to the SecretaryGeneral of the League of Nations for registration. I. Any such draft amendment shall take effect as an amendment to this Convention on ratification by the member or members to which it applies. Part 111. —Final Provisions. Article 10. The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations for registration. Article 11. 1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those members of the International Labour Organization whose ratifications have been registered with the Secretary-General. 2. It shall come into force twelve months after the date on which the ratifications of two members have been registered with the Secretary-General. 3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any member twelve months after the date on which its ratification has been registered. Article 12. As soon as the ratifications of two members of the International Labour Organization have been registered, 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 13. 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 conies into force, by an act communicated to the SecretaryGeneral of the League of Nations 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 the preceding paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation provided for in this Article, will be bound for another period of ten years, and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the expiration of each period of ten years under the terms provided for in this Article. Article 14. At the expiration of each period of ten years after the coming into force of this Convention, th<e 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 in whole or in part. Article 15. 1. Should the Conference adopt a new Convention revising this Convention in whole or in part, then, unless the new Convention otherwise provides, — (а) The ratification by a member of the new revising Convention shall ipso jure involve the immediate denunciation of this Convention, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 13 above, if and when the new revising Convention shall have come into force : (б) As from the date when the new revising Convention comes into force, this Convention shall cease to be open to ratification by the members. 2. This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its actual form and content for those members which have ratified it but have not ratified the revising Convention. Article 16. The French and English texts of this Convention shall both be authentic.

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