Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Minimum Age (Sea) Convention (Revised), 1936 (No. 58) - Peru (Ratification: 1962)

The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its report.

The Committee takes the opportunity to draw the Government’s attention to the decision adopted by the Governing Body concerning the Convention following its examination by the Working Party on Policy regarding the Revision of Standards (document GB.274/LILS/4(Rev.1) of March 1999). The Governing Body decided to invite the States parties to Convention No. 58 to contemplate ratifying the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138). The ratification of Convention No. 138 by a State party to Convention No. 58 involves the immediate denunciation of the latter if the State accepts the obligations of Convention No. 138 for maritime employment and either specifies, in pursuance of Article 2 of this Convention, a minimum age of not less than 15 years, or specifies that Article 3 (establishing a higher minimum age for hazardous types of work) of Convention No. 138 applies to maritime employment.

Peru ratified Convention No. 138 on 13 November 2002. It specified a minimum age of 14 years for admission to employment or work and did not specify that Article 3 of the Convention applied to maritime employment. Consequently, the ratification of Convention No. 138 by Peru did not result in the denunciation of Convention No. 58. The Committee therefore draws the Government’s attention to the fact that the formal declaration of the application of Article 3 of Convention No. 138 to maritime employment would involve the denunciation of Convention No. 58 with immediate effect.