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existing international labour Conventions have been referred to a working party for consideration and it is neeessary to make provision for the interval which will elapse before the coming into force of the new arrangements; The General Conference of the International Labour Organization resolves that the arrangements provided for in paragraph 1 of the Resolution concerning the Constitution and constitutional practice of the International Labour Organization adopted by the Conference at its Twenty-sixth Session shall continue to be applied and the Director of the International Labour Office shall preserve as depository communications from members of the organization received in pursuance of the said Resolution. APPENDIX 15.—RECOMMENDATION (No. 74), CONCERNING MINIMUM STANDARDS OF SOCIAL POLICY IN DEPENDENT TERRITORIES (SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS) (ADOPTED ON sth NOVEMBER. 1945) The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, Having been convened at Paris by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Twenty-seventh Session on 15 October, 1945; and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to minimum standards of social policy in dependent territories (Supplementary provisions), which is the fifth item on the Agenda of the session; and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation, adopts, this sth day of November of the year 1945, the following Recommendation, which may be cited, as the " Social Policy in Dependent Territories (Supplementary Provisions) Recommendation, 1945 ": Whereas Chapter XI of the Charter of the United Nations, being the declaration regarding non-self-governing territories, affirms the principle that the interests of the inhabitants of all such territories are paramount, and establishes the obligation of metropolitan States, as a sacred trust, to ensure the political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the peoples of these territories; and Whereas the International Labour Conference adopted on 12th May, 1944, in the" course of its Twenty-sixth Session, a Recommendation concerning minimum standards of social policy in dependent territories; and Whereas it is desirable to provide for the application to dependent territories of minimum standards supplementing those adopted in 1944: The Conference makes the following recommendations:— 1. Each member of the International Labour Organization which is responsible for any dependent territory should take all steps within its competence to secure the effective application in each such territory of the minimum standards set forth in the Annex to this Recommendation, and in particular should bring this Recommendation before the authority or authorities competent to make effective in each such territroy the minimum standards set forth in the Annex. 2. Each member of the organization should, if it approves this Recommendation, communicate to the Director of the International Labour Office at the earliest possible date particulars of the action taken to make effective the minimum standards set forth in the Annex in respect of each dependent territory for which the member in question is responsible, and thereafter should report to the International Labour Office, from time to time as requested by the Governing Body, concerning the action taken to give effect to the Recommendation.

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