Article 47 Procedure for the consideration of proposed amendments to the
Constitution by the Conference (ILC Standing Orders)
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Part II: Standing Orders concerning special subjects, Section F - Procedure
for the consideration by the Conference of proposed amendments to the
Constitution of the Organization.
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 47
Procedure for the consideration of proposed amendments to the Constitution by
the Conference
1. The International Labour Office shall submit to the Conference draft
amendments corresponding to the question or questions in respect of which a
proposal for amendment has been included in the agenda.
2. The Conference shall decide whether it will take as the basis of discussion
the draft amendments prepared by the International Labour Office and shall
decide whether they shall be considered in full Conference or referred to a
committee for report. These decisions may be preceded by a general debate in
full Conference on the question or questions in respect of which a proposal
for amendment has been included in the agenda.
3. If the draft amendments are considered in full Conference, each of them
shall be placed successively before the Conference for preliminary adoption by
a two-thirds majority of the delegates present. During the debate, and until
the draft amendments have been disposed of, no motion other than a motion to
amend the text of one of them or a motion as to procedure shall be considered
by the Conference.
4. If the draft amendments be referred to a committee, the Conference shall,
after receiving the report of the committee, proceed to discuss the text of
each draft amendment in succession, in accordance with the rules laid down in
the last preceding paragraph. The discussion shall not take place before the
day following that on which copies of the report have been circulated to the
delegates.
5. During the discussion of the draft amendments the Conference may refer one
or more of them to a committee.
6. The amendments as adopted by the Conference shall be referred to the
Conference Drafting Committee which shall embody them, together with any
necessary consequential amendments of the unamended provisions of the
Constitution, in a draft instrument of amendment the text of which shall be
circulated to the delegates.
7. No amendment shall be allowed to this text, but notwithstanding this
provision the President, after consultation with the three Vice-Presidents,
may submit to the Conference amendments which have been handed in to the
Secretariat the day after the circulation of the text as revised by the
Drafting Committee.
8. On receipt of the text prepared by the Drafting Committee and after
discussion of the amendments, if any, submitted in accordance with the
preceding paragraph, the Conference shall proceed to take a final vote on the
adoption of the draft instrument of amendment in accordance with article 36 of
the Constitution of the Organization.
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