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to whom the said paragraph applies ; or (c) a combination of laws or regulations and collective agreements between recognized associations of shipowners or shipowners and recognized associations of seafarers which cover all seafarers to whom the said paragraph applies. Except as may be otherwise provided herein, the provisions of this Convention shall be made applicable to every vessel registered in the territory of the ratifying Member and to every person engaged on any such vessel. 2. Each Member ratifying this Convention shall supply to the Director of the International Labour Office information on the measures by which the Convention is applied, including particulars of any collective agreements which give effect to any of its provisions and are in force at the date when the Member ratifies the Convention. 3. Each Member ratifying the Convention undertakes to take part, by means of a tripartite delegation, in any committee representative of Governments and shipowners' and seafarers' organizations and including in an advisory capacity representatives of the Joint Maritime Commission of the International Labour Office which may be set up for the purpose of examining the measures taken to give effect to the Convention. 4. The Director will lay before the said committee a summary of the information received by him under paragraph 3 above. 5. The Committee shall consider whether the collective agreements reported to it give effect to the provisions of the Convention. Each Member ratifying the Convention undertakes to give consideration to any observations or suggestions concerning the application of the Convention made by the Committee and further undertakes to bring to the notice of the organizations of employers and of workers who are parties to any of the collective agreements mentioned in paragraph 1 any observations or suggestions of the aforesaid committee concerning the degree to which such agreements give full effect to the provisions of the Convention. Article 11 The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the Director of the International Labour Office for registration. Article 12 1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the International Labour Organization whose ratifications have been registered with the Director. 2. It shall come into force six months after the date on which there have been registered ratifications by seven of the following countries : United States of America, Argentine Republic, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey and Yugoslavia, including at least four countries each of which has at least one million gross register tons of shipping. This provision is included for the purpose of facilitating and encouraging early ratification of the Convention by Member States. 3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member six months after the date'on which its ratification has been registered. 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 comes into force, by an act communicated to the Director of the International Labour Office 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.

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