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:
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION ACT 1947 Notes to the International Labour Organisation Act 1947
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