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2  Approval of Constitution of I.L.O.

The Schedule—The Constitution Of The International Labour Organisation

International Labour Organisation Act 1947

No. 91 of 1947

An Act to approve the amended Constitution of the International Labour Organisation Preamble

 [Assented to 11 December 1947]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

WHEREAS by Part XIII of the Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany, concluded at Versailles on the twenty‑eighth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and nineteen, there was established a permanent organisation known as the International Labour Organisation of which Australia is an original member:
AND WHEREAS Part XIII of the said Treaty of Peace contained the original Constitution of the International Labour Organisation:
AND WHEREAS by instruments of amendment adopted by the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation on the second day of November, One thousand nine hundred and twenty‑two, the fifth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and forty‑five and the ninth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and forty‑six, the provisions of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation were, in accordance with Article thirty‑six of that Constitution, amended in various respects:
AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the Constitution of the Organisation, as now amended, should be approved by the Parliament:
BE it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows: