R174 Repatriation of Seafarers Recommendation, 1987

The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,

Having been convened in Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office and having met at its Seventy-fourth Session on 24 September 1987, and

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the revision of the Repatriation of Seamen Convention, 1926 (No. 23), and of the Repatriation (Ship Masters and Apprentices) Recommendation, 1926 (No. 27), which is the fifth item on the agenda of the session, and

Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Recommendation supplementing the Repatriation of Seafarers Convention (Revised), 1987,

adopts this ninth day of October of the year one thousand nine hundred eighty-seven, the following Recommendation which may be cited as the Repatriation of Seafarers Recommendation, 1987:

Whenever a seafarer is entitled to be repatriated pursuant to the provisions of the Repatriation of Seafarers Convention (Revised), 1987, but both the shipowner and the Member in whose territory the ship is registered fail to meet their obligations under the Convention to arrange for and meet the cost of repatriation, the State from which the seafarer is to be repatriated or the State of which he or she is a national should arrange for his or her repatriation, and recover the cost from the Member in whose territory the ship is registered in accordance with Article 5 (a) of the Convention.

Cross references
Conventions: C023 Repatriation of Seamen Convention, 1926
Recommendations:R027 Repatriation (Ship Masters and Apprentices) Recommendation, 1926
Conventions: C166 Repatriation of Seafarers Convention (Revised), 1987