INSTRUMENT FOR THE AMENDMENT OP THE CONSTITUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION.

The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,

Having been convened at Montreal by the Goveming Body of the International Labour Office, and having met m lts Twenty-ninth Session on 19 September 1946; and

Having decided upon the adoption of certain amendments to the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, a question which is included in the second item on the agenda of the Session,

adopts, this ninth day of October of the year one thousand. nine hundred and forty-six, the following instrument for the amendment of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, which may be cited as the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation Instrument of Amendment, 1946:

Article 1.

As from the date of the coming into force of this Instrument of Amendment, the Constitution of the International Lab°iJ Organisation, of which the text at present in force is set tor_ in the first column of the Annex to this Instrument, shall ha^ effect as amended in the second column of the said Anne •

Article 2.

Two copies of this Instrument of Amendment shall be authe^ ticated by the signatures of the President of the Monteren and of the Director-General of the International Labour Oil). One of these copies shall be deposited in the archives ot / International Labour Office and the other shall _be cornrr11^- . cated to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for tration in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter o ^ United Nations. The Director-General will communicate a^c ^ ified copy of the Instrument to all the Members of the J-n national Labour Organisation.