2. This instrument of amendment will come into force in accordance with the existing provisions of Article 36 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation. If the Council of the League of Nations should cease to exist before this instrument has come into force, it shall come into force on ratification or acceptance by three-quarters of the Members of the Organisation.
3. On the coming into force of this instrument, the amendments set forth herein shall take effect as amendments to the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation.
4. On the coming into force of this instrument the Director of the International Labour Office shall so notify all the Members of the International Labour Organisation, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and all the States having signed the Charter of the United Nations.
The foregoing is the authentic text of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation Instrument of Amendment, 1945, duly adopted by the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation on the fifth day of November 1945 in the course of its Twenty-seventh Session which was held at Paris.
The English and French versions of the text of this instrument of amendment are equally authoritative.
In Faith Whereof we have appended our signatures this seventh day of November 1945.
The President of the Conference,
A. Parodi
The Acting Director of the International Labour Office,
Edward J. Phelan
