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APPENDIX No. 14.—CONVENTION CONCERNING THE NIGHT WORK OF YOUNG PERSONS EMPLOYED IN INDUSTRY (Revised 1948) The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, Having been convened at San Francisco by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Thirty-first Session on 17 June, 1948, and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the partial revision of the Night Work of Young Persons (Industry) Convention, 1919, adopted by the Conference at its First Session, which is the tenth item on the Agenda of the session, and Considering that these proposals must take the form of an international Convention, adopts this 10th day of July of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight the following Convention, which may be cited as the Night Work of Young Persons (Industry) Convention (Revised), 1948 : Part I.—General Provisions Article 1 1. For the purpose of this Convention, the term " industrial undertaking " includes particularly — (а) Mines, quarries, and other works for the extraction of minerals from the earth ; (б) Undertakings in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleaned, repaired > ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished, or in which materials are transformed, including undertakings engaged in shipbuilding or in the generation, transformation or transmission of electricity or motive power of any kind ; (c) Undertakings engaged in building and civil engineering work, including constructional, repair, maintenance, alteration and demolition work; (d) Undertakings engaged in the transport of passengers or goods by road or rail, including the handling of goods at docks, quays, wharves, warehouses or airports. 2. The competent authority shall define the line of division which separates industry from agriculture, commerce and other non-industrial occupations. 3. National laws or regulations may exempt from the application of this Convention employment on work which is not deemed to be harmful, prejudicial, or dangerous to children or young persons in family undertakings in which only parents and their children or wards are employed. Article 2 1. For the purpose of this Convention the term " night" signifies a period of at least twelve consecutive hours. 2. In the case of young persons under sixteen years of age, this period shall include the interval between ten o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning. 3. In the case of young persons who have attained the age of sixteen years but are under the age of eighteen years, this period shall include an interval prescribed by the competent authority of at least seven consecutive hours falling between ten o'clock in the evening and seven o'clock in the morning; the competent authority may prescribe different intervals for different areas, industries, undertakings or branches of industries or undertakings, but shall consult the employers' and workers' organizations concerned before prescribing an interval beginning after eleven o'clock in the evening.

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