Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

Repatriation of Seamen Convention, 1926 (No. 23) - Anguilla

The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Further to its previous comments the Committee notes that there is no legislative implementation of the Convention and that the draft bill similar to the draft Merchant Shipping Bill prepared by the Caribbean Community Secretariat has not yet been discussed by the Government. Please provide all information regarding any developments in this respect. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would also provide particulars as to the vessels registered in the territory to which the Convention is applicable.