Preamble
The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at Seattle by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Twenty-eighth Session on 6 June 1946, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to agreements relating to social security for seafarers, which is included in the second item on the agenda of the Session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation,
adopts this twenty-eighth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Seafarers' Social Security (Agreements) Recommendation, 1946:
The Conference recommends the Members of the Organisation to apply the following principles and to inform the International Labour Office, as requested by the Governing Body, concerning the measures taken to give effect to these principles:
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1. Members should enter into agreements so as to ensure that seafarers belonging to one country and employed on board or in the service of a vessel of another country either remain subject to the schemes of compulsory social insurance or workmen's compensation of their own country or are subject to the corresponding schemes of the other country.
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2. Such agreements might provide, for example, for Members to act as agents for one another in taking claims, obtaining necessary evidence and making payments or providing services as benefits to seafarers or dependants of seafarers entitled to benefit under the social insurance laws of one Member but present in the territory of another Member; or for the transfer of contributions; or for the application of the provisions of the Maintenance of Migrants' Pension Rights Convention, 1935; or for a combination of such methods.
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3. Where seafarers residing in the territory of one Member and employed on board or in the service of vessels registered in the territory of another Member suffer employment injuries and are not protected either by a workmen's compensation scheme or by any alternative scheme, the second Member should take steps to secure that they are fully protected, either by entering into agreements with the first Member, or otherwise.
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4. Where the shipowners of a Member enter into collective agreements providing for seafarers residing in its territory benefits supplementary to those prescribed by its laws or regulations and employ seafarers residing in the territory of another Member, the same supplementary benefits should be extended to such non-resident seafarers.
