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-eight Session on 6 June 1946, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to medical care for seafarers' dependants, which is included in the second item on the agenda of the Session, and
Having adopted the Social Security (Seafarers) Convention, 1946, and having decided to supplement the provisions of this Convention by 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 (Medical Care for Dependants) Recommendation, 1946:
The Conference recommends that Members of the Organisation should endeavour to provide proper and sufficient medical care for the dependants of seafarers pending the development of a medical care service which would include within its scope workers generally and their dependants and should inform the International Labour Office, as requested by the Governing Body, concerning the measures taken for this purpose.
