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6. Article 3, paragraph 1, and Article 4, paragraph 1, shall apply to young persons under the age of seventeen years. 7. Article 3, paragraphs 2, 3, and 4, Article 4, paragraph 2, and Article 5 shall apply to young persons who have attained the age of fifteen years but are under the age of seventeen years. 8. Article 6, paragraph 1 (e), shall apply to young persons under the age of seventeen years. Article 10 1. The International Labour Conference may, at any session at which the matter is included in its Agenda, adopt by a two-thirds majority draft amendments to any one or more of the preceding articles of Part II of this Convention. 2. Any such draft amendment shall state the member or members to which it applies and shall, within the period of one year or, in exceptional circumstances, of eighteen months from the closing of the session of the Conference, be submitted by the member or members to which it applies to the authority or authorities within whose competence the matter lies, for the enactment of legislation or other action. 3. Each such member will, if it obtains the consent of the authority or authorities within whose competence the matter lies, communicate the formal ratification of the amendment to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration. 4. Any such draft amendment shall take effect as an amendment to this Convention on ratification by the member or members to which it applies. Part lll.—Final Provisions Article 11 The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the DirectorGeneral 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-General. 2. It shall come into force twelve months after the date on which the ratifications of two members have been registered with the Director-General. 3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any member twelve 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 first comes into force, by an act communicated to the Director-General 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. Article 14 1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall notify all members of the International Labour Organization of the registration of all ratifications, declarations and denunciations communicated to him by the members of the Organization.

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