Protocol recording Deposit of the Ratifications of the International Convention with respect to the circulation of Motor Vehicles, signed at Paris, October 11, 1909. In execution of Article 10, § A of the International Convention with respect to the Circulation of Motor Vehicles, signed at Paris, the 11th October, 1909, the undersigned, representatives of the cosignatory powers, have assembled at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in order to proceed to the deposit of the ratifications of the high contracting powers. The instruments of ratification of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India; of His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia; of His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, &c., and Apostolic King of Hungary; of His Majesty the King of Bulgaria; of His Majesty the King of Spain; of the President of the French Republic; of His Majesty the King of Italy; and of His Serene Highness the Prince of Monaco, have been produced, and, having been after examination found in good and due form, have been entrusted to the Government of the French Republic with a view to their deposit in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Governments of Belgium, Greece, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Portugal, Roumania, Russia,' and Servia, have declared that they are 1 The Belgian ratification was deposited April 30, 1910. The Russian ratification was deposited March 5, 1910. The signatory powers have agreed that the position of Belgium and Russia is assimilated to that of powers which deposited ratifications on March 1, 1910, and that the provisions of the first part of Article 13 therefore apply in the case of these countries. not in a position this day to deposit their ratifications, and have requested to be allowed the faculty, reserved to them by paragraph D of Article 10, to fulfil this formality at a later date. The French Government will notify these successive deposits to the contracting powers. Done at Paris, the 1st March, 1910, in a single original, of which a duly certified copy shall be communicated to each of the signatory governments. INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION RESPECTING THE PROHIBITION OF NIGHT Signed at Berne, September 26, 1906. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India; His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia; His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, etc., and Apostolic King of Hungary; His Majesty the King of the Belgians; His Majesty the King of Denmark; His Majesty the King of Spain; the President of the French Republic; His Majesty the King of Italy; His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Luxemburg, Duke of Nassau; Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands; His Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves, etc.; His Majesty the King of Sweden; the Swiss Federal Council, Being desirous of facilitating the development of the industrial protection of work people by the adoption of common provisions, Have for this purpose resolved to conclude a convention respecting the night work of women in industrial employment, and have named the following as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say: 1 Great Britain, Treaty Series, No. 21, 1910. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Mr. Herbert Samuel, Member of Parliament, Parliamentary Mr. Malcolm Delevingne, of the Home Office; His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia: His Excellency M. Alfred de Bülow, His Chamberlain and Privy M. Caspar, Director at the Imperial Ministry of the Interior, M. Eckardt, Councillor of Legation and "Conseiller Rapporteur His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, etc., and Apostolic King of Hungary: For Austria and Hungary: His Excellency Baron Heidler von Egeregg and Syrgenstein, His Privy Councillor, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berne, For Austria: Dr. Franz Müller, Ministerial Councillor at the Imperial and For Hungary: M. Nicolas Gerster, Chief Royal Inspector of Factories in Hungary; His Majesty the King of the Belgians: His Excellency M. Maurice Michotte de Welle, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berne, M. Jean Dubois, Director-General of the Department of Labour at the Ministry of Industry and Labour; His Majesty the King of Denmark: M. Henrik Vedel, Head of Department at the Ministry of the His Majesty the King of Spain: M. Bernardo Alméida y Herreros, Chargé d'Affaires at Berne; The President of the French Republic: His Excellency M. Paul Révoil, Ambassador at Berne, M. Arthur Fontaine, Director of the Labour Department of the His Majesty the King of Italy: His Excellency Count Roberto Magliano di Villar San Marco, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berne, Professor Giovanni Montemartini, Director of the Labour Department of the Royal Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce; His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Luxemburg, Duke of Nassau: M. Henri Neuman, Councillor of State; Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands: Count de Rechteren Limpurg Almelo, Her Chamberlain, Minister- Dr. L. H. W. Regout, Member of the First Chamber of the His Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves, etc.: His Excellency M. Alberto d'Oliveira, Envoy Extraordinary and His Majesty the King of Sweden: M. Alfred de Lagerheim, late Minister for Foreign Affairs, Director and Head of the Royal College of Commerce; The Swiss Federal Council: M. Emile Frey, late Federal Councillor, Dr. Franz Kaufmann, Head of the Industrial Section of the M. Joseph Schobinger, National Councillor, M. Henri Scherrer, National Councillor, M. John Syz, President of the Swiss Association of Spinners, Who, after having communicated to each other their full powers, found in good and due form, have successively discussed and adopted. the following articles: ARTICLE 1. Night work in industrial employment shall be prohibited for all women without distinction of age, with the exceptions hereinafter provided for. The present convention applies to all industrial undertakings in which more than ten men or women are employed: it does not in any case apply to undertakings in which only the members of the family are employed. It is incumbent upon each contracting state to define the term "industrial undertakings." The definition shall in every case include mines and quarries and also industries in which articles are manufactured and materials transformed: as regards the latter the laws of each individual country shall define the line of division which separates industry from agriculture and commerce. ARTICLE 2. The night rest provided for in the preceding article shall be a period of at least eleven consecutive hours; within these eleven hours, whatever the legislation of each state may be, shall be comprised the interval between ten in the evening and five in the morning. In those states, however, where the night work of adult women employed in industrial occupations is not as yet regulated, the period of uninterrupted rest may provisionally, and for a maximum period of three years, be limited to ten hours. ARTICLE 3. The prohibition of night work may be suspended: 1. In cases of "force majeure," when in any undertaking there occurs an interruption of work which it was impossible to foresee and which is not of a recurring character; 2. In cases where the work has to do with raw materials or materials in course of treatment which are subject to rapid deterioration, when such night work is necessary to preserve the said materials from certain loss. ARTICLE 4. In those industries which are influenced by the seasons, and in all undertakings in the case of exceptional circumstances demanding it, the period of the uninterrupted night rest may be reduced to ten hours on sixty days of the year. ARTICLE 5. It is incumbent upon each of the contracting states to take the administrative measures necessary to ensure the strict execution of the terms of the present convention within its own territory. |