Article 21 Majority (ILC Standing Orders)


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Document No. (ilolex): 27199426
Part I: General Standing Orders Adopted on 21 November 1919 at the First Session of the Conference. Revised and consolidated at the 27th Session. The present text of this article includes all amendments adopted up to the 97th Session (2008). The ILO is committed to promoting gender equality. Amendments to this effect were adopted at the 97th Session of the International Labour Conference (Geneva, 2008).

ARTICLE 21

Majority

In order to determine the majorities by record vote all votes cast, for and against, shall be counted, so that, in order to be adopted, it is necessary that the proposal submitted to the Conference shall obtain more than one-half or twothirds of the votes cast in accordance with the requirements of the Constitution, or of the Convention or other instrument conferring the powers which the Conference is exercising, or of the financial and budgetary arrangements adopted in virtue of article 13 of the Constitution.

Cross references
Constitution: Article 17
Constitution: Article 19


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