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Article 33 Cessation of disqualification from voting (ILC Standing Orders)

Description: (ILC Standing Orders)
Part II: Standing Orders concerning special subjects, Section D - Disqualification from voting of members which are in arrears in the payment of their contributions to 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 85th Session, 1997.

ARTICLE 33

Cessation of disqualification from voting

When, as a result of the receipt by the Director-General of the International Labour Office of payments made by a Member, article 13, paragraph 4, of the Constitution ceases to be applicable to that Member--

(a) the Director-General shall notify the Member that its right to vote is no longer suspended;

(b) if the International Labour Conference, the Governing Body, the electoral colleges provided for in articles 49 and 50 of the Standing Orders of the Conference, or any committee concerned, has received the notification provided for in article 30 of the present section, the Director-General shall inform it that the right to vote of the Member is no longer suspended.