"In accordance with the Joint
Declaration of the Government of the People's Republic of China and the
Government of the Republic of Portugal on the Question of Macao signed on 13
April 1987, the Government of the People's Republic of China will resume the
exercise of sovereignty over Macao with effect from 20 December 1999. Macao
will, with effect from that date, become a Special Administrative Region of the
People's Republic of China and will enjoy a high degree of autonomy, except in foreign
and defence affairs, which are the responsibilities of the Central People's
Government of the People's Republic of China.
In this connection, I am instructed by the
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China to inform Your
Excellency of the following:
Convention concerning Equality of
Treatment for National and Foreign Workers as regards Workmen's Compensation
for Accidents (No. 19), 1925, (hereinafter referred to as the
"Convention"), to which the Government of the People's Republic of
China acceded on 11 July 1984, will apply to the Macao Special Administrative
Region with effect from 20 December 1999.
The Government of the People's Republic of
China will assume the responsibility for the international rights and
obligations arising from the application of the Convention to the Macao Special
Administrative Region."
Convention concerning Equality of Treatment for National and Foreign Workers as regards Workmen's Compensation for Accidents
(ILO No. 19)
(Adopted at Geneva on 05 June 1925)
The General
Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been
convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office,
and having met in its Seventh Session on 19 May 1925, and
Having decided upon
the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the equality of treatment for
national and foreign workers as regards workmen's compensation for accidents,
the second item in the agenda of the Session, and
Having determined
that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention,
adopts this fifth
day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five the following
Convention, which may be cited as the Equality of Treatment (Accident
Compensation) Convention, 1925, for ratification by the Members of the
International Labour Organisation in accordance with the provisions of the
Constitution of the International Labour Organisation:
Article 1
1. Each Member of
the International Labour Organisation which ratifies this Convention undertakes
to grant to the nationals of any other Member which shall have ratified the
Convention, who suffer personal injury due to industrial accidents happening in
its territory, or to their dependants, the same treatment in respect of
workmen's compensation as it grants to its own nationals.
2. This equality of
treatment shall be guaranteed to foreign workers and their dependants without
any condition as to residence. With regard to the payments which a Member or
its nationals would have to make outside that Member's territory in the
application of this principle, the measures to be adopted shall be regulated,
if necessary, by special arrangements between the Members concerned.
Article 2
Special agreements
may be made between the Members concerned to provide that compensation for
industrial accidents happening to workers whilst temporarily or intermittently
employed in the territory of one Member on behalf of an undertaking situated in
the territory of another Member shall be governed by the laws and regulations
of the latter Member.
Article 3
The Members which
ratify this Convention and which do not already possess a system, whether by
insurance or otherwise, of workmen's compensation for industrial accidents
agree to institute such a system within a period of three years from the date
of their ratification.
Article 4
The Members which
ratify this Convention further undertake to afford each other mutual assistance
with a view to facilitating the application of the Convention and the execution
of their respective laws and regulations on workmen's compensation and to
inform the International Labour Office, which shall inform the other Members
concerned, of any modifications in the laws and regulations in force on
workmen's compensation.
Article 5
The formal ratifications
of this Convention, under the conditions set forth in the Constitution of the
International Labour Organisation, shall be communicated to the
Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.
Article 6
1. This Convention
shall come into force at the date on which the ratifications of two Members of
the International Labour Organisation have been registered by the
Director-General.
2. It shall be
binding only upon those Members whose ratifications have been registered with the
International Labour Office.
3. Thereafter, the
Convention shall come into force for any Member at the date on which its
ratification has been registered with the International Labour Office.
Article 7
As soon as the
ratifications of two Members of the International Labour Organisation have been
registered with the International Labour Office, the Director-General of the
International Labour Office shall so notify all the Members of the
International Labour Organisation. He shall likewise notify them of the
registration of the ratifications which may be communicated subsequently by
other Members of the Organisation.
Article 8
Subject to the
provisions of Article 6, each Member which ratifies this Convention agrees to
bring the provisions of Articles 1, 2, 3, and 4 into operation not later than 1
January 1927 and to take such action as may be necessary to make these
provisions effective.
Article 9
Each Member of the
International Labour Organisation which ratifies this Convention engages to
apply it to its colonies, possessions and protectorates in accordance with the
provisions of Article 35 of the Constitution of the International Labour
Organisation.
Article 10
A Member which has
ratified this Convention may denounce it after the expiration of ten years from
the date on which the Convention first comes into force, by an act communicated
to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.
Such denunciation shall not take effect until one year after the date on which
it is registered with the International Labour Office.
Article 11
At such times as it
may consider necessary the Governing Body of the International Labour Office
shall present to the General Conference a report on the working of this
Convention and shall examine the desirability of placing on the agenda of the
Conference the question of its revision in whole or in part.
Article 12
The French and
English texts of this Convention shall both be authentic.