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Article 15 At the expiration of each period of ten years after the coming into force of this Convention the 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 16 1. Should the Conference adopt a new Convention revising this Convention in whole or in part, then, unless the new Convention otherwise provides, — (a) 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 12 above, if and when the new revising Convention shall have come into force : (b) 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 17 The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally authoritative. APPENDIX S.—TEXT OF THE CONVENTION CONCERNING THE MAXIMUM LENGTH OF CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT OF INDIGENOUS WORKERS The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office and having met in its thirtieth session on 19 June, 1947, and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals concerning the maximum length of contracts of employment of indigenous workers, which is included in the third item on the agenda of the session, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention, adopts, this eleventh day of July of the year one thousand nine hundred and fortyseven, the following Convention, which may be cited as the Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1947. Article 1 For the purposes of this Convention — (a) The term " worker " means an indigenous worker—that is to say, a worker belonging to or assimilated to the indigenous population of a nonmetropolitan territory; (b) The term " employer" includes, unless the contrary intention appears, any public authority, individual, company, or association, whether non-indigenous or indigenous ; (c) The term " regulations" means the law and/or regulations in force in the territory concerned; and (d) The term " contract " means, unless the contrary intention appears, a contract of employment by which a worker enters the service of an employer as a worker for remuneration in cash or in any other form whatsoever, but does not include contracts of apprenticeship made in accordance with special provisions relating to apprenticeship contained in the regulations.

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