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Article 37 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 38 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 34 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 39 The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally authoritative. APPENDIX 7.—TEXT OF THE RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING LABOUR INSPECTION 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 with regard to the organization of labour inspection in industry and commerce, which is the fourth item on the agenda of the session, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a recommendation supplementing the Labour Inspection Recommendation, 1923, and the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947, adopts, this eleventh day of July of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Labour Inspection Recommendation, 1947 : Whereas the Labour Inspection Recommendation, 1923, and the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947, provide for organization of systems of labour inspection, and it is desirable to supplement the provisions thereof by further recommendations ; The Conference recommends that each member should apply the following provisions as rapidly as national conditions allow and report to the International Labour Office as requested by the Governing Body concerning the measures taken to give effect thereto. I. Preventive Duties op Labour Inspectorates 1. Any person who proposes to open an industrial or commercial establishment, or to take over such an establishment, or to commence in such an establishment the carrying on of a class of activity specified by a competent authority as materially affecting the application of legal provisions enforceable by labour inspectors, should be required to give notice in advance to the competent labour inspectorate, either directly or through another designated authority.

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