ACCEPTING AND MAKING PUBLIC THE ACCEPTANCE FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES OF THE INSTRUMENT FOR THE AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAB…

WHEREAS, the International Labor Conference
adopted at its 36th Session, on June 25, 1953, by 189 votes to 0, with two
abstentions, an Instrument for the Amendment of the Constitution of the
International Labor Organization, 1953;

WHEREAS, under article 36 of the Constitution of
the International Labor Organization, amendments “which are adopted by the
conference by a majority of two-thirds of the votes cast by the delegates
present shall take effect when ratified or accepted by two-thirds of the
members of the organization including five of the eight members which are
represented on the Governing Body as members of chief industrial importance in
accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3 of article 7 of this
Constitution”;

WHEREAS, the purpose of the aforesaid Instrument
for the amendment of the Constitution of the International Labor Organization
is to increase the size of the Governing Body of the International Labor Office
to take account of the increases in the membership of the International Labor
Organization and to delete the last sentence of paragraph 2 of article 7 of the
Constitution of said Organization, which, has long ceased to correspond to
present conditions; and

WHEREAS, it is necessary that the Instrument for
the Amendment of the Constitution of the International Labor Organization be
brought into force before the 37th Session of the International Labor
Conference convenes in June, 1954;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Ramon
Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do hereby accept for the Government of
the Republic of the Philippines the Instrument for the Amendment of the
Constitution of the International Labor Organization, 1953, a certified copy of
which is hereto annexed, and hereby proclaim and make public such acceptance to
the end that the said Instrument and every article and clause thereof may be
observed and fulfilled with good faith by the Republic of the Philippines and
the citizens thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 8th day of
February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the eighth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:
FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary