Decree of the Minister for Foreign Affairs No. 25 / 1981 Coll.
Decree of the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the Convention on a medical examination of the eligibility of young people for employment in mines (No 124)
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DECLARATION
Minister for Foreign Affairs
of 20 January 1981
concerning the Convention on a medical examination of the eligibility of young people to work underground in mines (No 124)
On 23 June 1965, at the 49th session of the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation, the Convention on a Medical Examination of the Eligibility of Adolescents to Work Underground in Mines (No 124) was adopted. Ratification of the Convention by the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was registered on 23 April 1980 by the Director-General of the International Labour Office. Pursuant to Article 7 of the Convention, the Convention will enter into force for the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic on 23 April 1981.
The Czech translation of the text of the Convention is announced simultaneously.
Minister:
Ing. Chupek v. r.
CONVENTION
on a medical examination of the fitness of minors to work underground in mines (No 124)
General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
which was convened by the Board of Directors of the International Labour Office to Geneva and met there on 2 June 1965 at its 49th session,
Decides to adopt certain proposals concerning a medical examination of the eligibility of minors for employment under the mines, which are the fourth item of the agenda of the sitting,
having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A8-0021 / 2015),
Notes that the Convention further provides that for highly health-threatening employment, a medical examination of eligibility for work and its periodic repetition shall be required at least until the twenty-first year of age and that national legislation is to designate or empower the appropriate authority to identify the employment or groups of employment covered by this provision,
taking into account the need to establish international standards requiring medical examinations and periodic examinations of eligibility for work under mines up to the age of 21 years in view of the threat to health arising from underground employment; and
state that these standards will take the form of an international convention,
adopts the following Convention on 23 June 1965, which will be referred to as the Convention on the Medical Examination of Youth (Underground Labour), 1965:
1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term "mine 'shall mean any undertaking, public or private, engaged in the extraction of substances placed under the surface of a country where people are employed underground.
2. The provisions of this Convention relating to employment or working underground in mines shall also apply to employment and working underground in quarries.
1. A thorough medical examination and periodic re-examination at periods of no longer than one year should be required to determine the eligibility of young people under 21 years of age to work or work underground in mines.
2. Other measures for the medical supervision of adolescents between 18 and 21 years may be taken if, on the basis of a medical opinion, the competent authority considers that such measures are equivalent or more effective than those referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article and has discussed them and agreed on them with the most representative employers' and workers' organisations.
The medical examinations provided for in Article 2 shall be:
(a) carried out under the responsibility and supervision of a qualified doctor approved by the competent authority; and
(b) certified in an appropriate manner.
2. In the first medical examination, and if this is considered necessary from a medical point of view, even in the following repeated tests, an X-ray of the lung will be required.
3. The medical examinations required by this Convention shall not be linked to any expenditure on minors or their parents and guardians.
1. The competent authorities shall ensure the effective implementation of the provisions of this Convention by the necessary measures, including the establishment of appropriate penalties.
2. Any Member State which ratifies this Convention undertakes to maintain an appropriate inspection, overseeing the implementation of the provisions of this Convention, or to verify that appropriate inspections are carried out.
3. National legislation shall designate the persons responsible for compliance with the provisions of this Convention.
4. The employer shall keep records for inspectors containing the following information on each person under 21 who is employed or working underground:
(a) the date of birth, where possible duly verified;
(b) an indication of the nature of the work; and
(c) a certificate of qualification which does not contain any medical data.
5. The employer shall make the information referred to in paragraph 4 of this Article available to the staff representatives at their request.
Before establishing guidelines for the implementation of this Convention and before taking appropriate measures, the competent authority in each country is to discuss these issues with the most representative employers' and workers' organisations involved.
The formal ratification of this Convention shall be notified to and registered by the Director-General of the International Labour Office.
1. This Convention only obliges the Member States of the International Labour Organisation whose ratification has been registered by the Director-General.
2. It shall take effect 12 months after the Director-General has registered the ratification of two Member States.
3. For each other Member State, this Convention shall take effect 12 months from the date on which its ratification was registered.
1. Any Member State which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after a period of 10 years from the date on which the Convention first came into force, by written communication to the Director-General of the International Labour Office, who shall record it. The denunciation shall take effect one year after the date on which it was registered.
2. Any Member State which has ratified this Convention and which does not exercise the right to denounce it under this Article during the year following the expiry of a period of 10 years, as referred to in the preceding paragraph, shall be bound by the Convention for a further 10-year period and shall then be able to terminate it at the end of each 10-year period under the conditions laid down in this Article.
1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Member States of the International Labour Organisation of the registration of all ratifications and statements communicated to it by the Member States of the Organisation.
2. When notifying the Member States of the organisation of the registration of the second ratification notified to it, the Director-General shall notify the Member States of the organisation of the date on which this Convention enters into force.
The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall communicate to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for registration in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations the full details of all the ratifications and statements he has entered in accordance with the provisions of the previous Articles.
The Administrative Board of the International Labour Office, whenever deemed necessary, shall present a report to the General Conference on the implementation of this Convention and shall examine whether it is appropriate to put on the agenda of the General Conference a question of its complete or partial revision.
1. Where the General Conference adopts a new Convention which fully or partially revises this Convention and does not provide otherwise for the new Convention:
(a) ratification by a Member State of a new revising convention shall cause the ipso jure to be terminated immediately, regardless of the provisions of Article 8, subject to the fact that the new revising convention becomes effective;
(b) since the new revised Convention enters into force, this Convention shall cease to be open to the Member States for ratification.
2. However, this Convention shall remain in force in its form and content for those Member States which have ratified it and which have not ratified the revised Convention.
The English and French versions of this Convention shall be equally authentic.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Decree of the Minister for Foreign Affairs No. 25 / 1981 Coll., on the Convention on a Medical Examination of the Eligibility of Youth to Work Underground in Mines (No. 124) |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 12.03.1981 |
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| Effective from | 23.04.1981 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
The regulation text is for informational purposes only.
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