Article 65 Method of voting (ILC Standing Orders)
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Document No. (ilolex): 27199471
Part II: Standing Orders concerning special subjects, Section H - Committees
of the Conference.
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 65
Method of voting
1. Subject to article 40, paragraph 2, of these Standing Orders, decisions
shall be taken by a simple majority of the votes cast by the members of the
committee present at the sitting.
2. Each member of the committee shall, except in the cases provided for in
paragraphs 3 and 4 of this article, be entitled to cast one vote.
3. If the Conference has appointed to a committee twice as many Government
members as Employers' or Workers' members, (Endnote 1) each Government member
shall be entitled to cast one vote and each Employers or Workers member shall
be entitled to cast two votes.
4. If the Conference has appointed to a committee one-and-a-half times as many
Government members as Employers' or Workers' members, each Government member
shall be entitled to cast two votes and each Employers' or Workers' member
shall be entitled to cast three votes.
5. Any vote on the election of the Chairperson shall be by secret ballot.
6. Committees shall vote by a show of hands or by a record vote.
7. If the result of a vote by a show of hands is challenged, the Chairperson
shall cause a record vote to be taken.
8. A record vote shall also be taken if requested by show of hands by at least
one-fifth of the members present at the sitting, whether such request be made
before or immediately after the vote by show of hands.
9. The vote shall be recorded by the secretariat and announced by the
Chairperson.
10. No resolution, amendment or motion shall be adopted if an equal number of
votes are cast for and against.
11. The Chairperson shall permit any members of the committee who so request
to explain their vote briefly immediately after the voting. The Chairperson
may limit the time allowed for such explanations.
Endnotes
Endnote 1
In committees dealing with the items on the agenda, it is the practice of the
Conference to give equal representation to the three groups in the Conference:
Governments, Employers and Workers. As it not infrequently happens that
governments desire representation on a committee in numbers which it is
impossible for one or both of the other groups to equal, the principle of
equality between the three groups on the committee can be maintained only by
the adoption of special systems of voting. Two systems are employed.
Under the first of these systems, the committee is constituted in the same
proportions as the Conference, with twice as many Government members as there
are Employers or Workers members, but each Government member casts one vote
and each member of the other two groups casts two votes.
Under the second system, the Government members are one-and-a-half times as
numerous as the Employers or Workers members, but each Government member
casts two votes and each member of the other two groups casts three votes.
The composition of each committee is the subject of a proposal to the
Conference by the Selection Committee, and the normal system of voting or one
of two special systems is applied as the case may require.
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