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Preamble
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 Fourteenth Session on 10 June 1930, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to forced or compulsory
labour, which is included in the first item on the agenda of the Session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international
Convention,
adopts this twenty-eighth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty
the following Convention, which may be cited as the Forced Labour Convention, 1930, 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 suppress the use of forced or
compulsory labour in all its forms within the shortest possible
period.
- 2. [deleted pursuant to Article 7 of the Protocol of 2014
to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930]
- 3. [deleted pursuant to Article 7 of the Protocol of 2014
to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930]
Article 2
- 1. For the purposes of this Convention the term forced
or compulsory labour shall mean all work or service
which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for
which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily.
- 2. Nevertheless, for the purposes of this Convention, the term
forced or compulsory labour shall not include--
- (a) any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military
service laws for work of a purely military character;
- (b) any work or service which forms part of the normal civic
obligations of the citizens of a fully self-governing
country;
- (c) any work or service exacted from any person as a consequence
of a conviction in a court of law, provided that the said work
or service is carried out under the supervision and control of a
public authority and that the said person is not hired to or
placed at the disposal of private individuals, companies or
associations;
- (d) any work or service exacted in cases of emergency, that is
to say, in the event of war or of a calamity or threatened
calamity, such as fire, flood, famine, earthquake, violent
epidemic or epizootic diseases, invasion by animal, insect or
vegetable pests, and in general any circumstance that would
endanger the existence or the well-being of the whole or part of
the population;
- (e) minor communal services of a kind which, being performed by
the members of the community in the direct interest of the said
community, can therefore be considered as normal civic
obligations incumbent upon the members of the community,
provided that the members of the community or their direct
representatives shall have the right to be consulted in regard
to the need for such services.
Articles 3 to 24
[deleted pursuant to Article 7 of the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour
Convention, 1930]
Article 25
The illegal exaction of forced or compulsory labour shall be punishable as a
penal offence, and it shall be an obligation on any Member ratifying this
Convention to ensure that the penalties imposed by law are really adequate
and are strictly enforced.
Article 26
- 1. Each Member of the International Labour Organisation which
ratifies this Convention undertakes to apply it to the territories
placed under its sovereignty, jurisdiction, protection, suzerainty,
tutelage or authority, so far as it has the right to accept obligations
affecting matters of internal jurisdiction; provided that, if such
Member may desire to take advantage of the provisions of article 35 of
the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, it shall
append to its ratification a declaration stating--
- (1) the territories to which it intends to apply the provisions of this
Convention without modification;
- (2) the territories to which it intends to apply the provisions of this
Convention with modifications, together with details of the said
modifications;
- (3) the territories in respect of which it reserves its decision.
- 2. The aforesaid declaration shall be deemed to be an integral
part of the ratification and shall have the force of ratification. It
shall be open to any Member, by a subsequent declaration, to cancel in
whole or in part the reservations made, in pursuance of the provisions
of subparagraphs (2) and (3) of this Article, in the original
declaration.
Article 27
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 28
- 1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members
whose ratifications have been registered with the International Labour
Office.
- 2. It shall come into force twelve months after the date on
which the ratifications of two Members of the International Labour
Organisation have been registered with the Director-General.
- 3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any
Member twelve months after the date on which the ratification has been
registered.
Article 29
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 ratifications which may be communicated
subsequently by other Members of the Organisation.
Article 30
- 1. 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.
- 2. Each Member which has ratified this Convention and which
does not, within the year following the expiration of the period of ten
years mentioned in the preceding paragraph, exercise the right of
denunciation provided for in this Article, will be bound for another
period of five years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at
the expiration of each period of five years under the terms provided for
in this Article.
Article 31
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 32
- 1. Should the Conference adopt a new Convention revising this
Convention in whole or in part, the ratification by a Member of the new
revising Convention shall ipso jure involve denunciation of this
Convention without any requirement of delay, notwithstanding the
provisions of Article 30 above, if and when the new revising Convention
shall have come into force.
- 2. As from the date of the coming into force of the new
revising Convention, the present Convention shall cease to be open to
ratification by the Members.
- 3. Nevertheless, this Convention shall remain in force in its
actual form and content for those Members which have ratified it but
have not ratified the revising convention.
Article 33
The French and English texts of this Convention shall both be authentic.
