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 46th Session, on June 22, 1962, by 309 votes to 0,
with one abstention, an Instrument for the Amendment of the Constitution of the
International Labor Organization, 1962;

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 ten 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 the
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 4 of Article 7 of the Constitution of the International Labor
Organization, which has become unnecessary through recent developments; and

WHEREAS, it appears that the
aforesaid Instrument for the Amendment of the Constitution of the International
Labor Organization does not invlove any significant or substantial change in
the foreign policy of the Government of the Philippines nor in the obligations
of the Republic of the Philippines as member of the International Labor
Organization and that it will best serve the interests of the International
Labor Organization if said Instrument of Amendment is brought into force as
soon as possible;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DIOSDADO
MACAPAGAL, 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, 1962, 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
26th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-three.

DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:

SALVADOR L. MARIÑO
Executive Secretary

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