INTERNATIONA! LABOUR CONFERENCE

CONVENTION 92

Convention concerning Crew Accommodation on Board Ship (Revised 1949)

The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,

Haring been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the international Labour Office, and having met in its Thirty-second Session on 8 June 1949, and

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the partial revision of the Accommodation of Crews Convention, 1946, adopted by the Conference at its Twenty-eighth Session, which is included in the twelfth item on the agenda of the session, and

Considering that these proposals must take the form of an international Convention,

adopts this eighteenth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine the following Convention, which may be cited as the Accommodation of Crews Convention (Revised), 1949:

PART I

General Provisions

Article 1

1. This Convention applies to every sea-going mechanically propelled vessel, whether publicly or privately owned, which is engaged in the transport of cargo or passengers for the purpose of trade and is registered in a territory for which this Convention is in force.

2. National laws or regulations shall determine when vessels are to be regarded as sea-going vessels for the purpose of this Convention.

3. This Convention does not apply to—(a)

vessels of less than 500 tons; (b) vessels primarily propelled by sail but having auxiliary engines; (c) vessels engaged in fishing or in whaling or in similar pursuits;

(d) tugs.

4. Provided that the Convention shall be applied where reasonable and practicable to—(a)

vessels between 200 and 500 tons; and (b) the accommodation of persons engaged in usual sea-going routine in vessels engaged in whaling or in similar pursuits.