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possible with the policy, with their rights and obligations and with activities designed to give effective assistance to migrant workers in the exercise of their rigths and for their protection; d) Repeal any statutory provisions and modify any administrative instructions or practices which are inconsistent whith the policy;

e) In consultation with representative organiza-

tions of employers and workers, formulate and apply a social policy appropriate to national conditions and practice which enables migrant workers and their families to share in advantages enjoyed by its nationals while taking account, without adversely affecting the principle of equality of opportunity and treatment, of such special needs as they may have until they are adapted to the society of the country of employment;

f) Take all steps to assist and encourage the efforts

of migrant workers and their families to preserve their national and ethnic identity and their cultural ties with their country of origin, including the possibility for children to be given some knowledge of their mother tongue;

g) Guarantee equality of treatment, with regard

to working conditions, for all migrant workers who perform the same activity whatever might be the particular conditions of their employment.

c) Restrict access to limited categories of employment or functions where this is necessary in the interests of the State.

PART III Final provisions

ARTICLE 15

This Convention does not prevent Members from concluding multilateral or bilateral agreements with a view to resolving problems arising from its application.

ARTICLE 16

1 — Any Member which ratifies this Convention may, by a declaration appended to its ratification, exclude either Part I or Part II from its acceptance of the Convention.

2— Any Member which has made such a declaration may at any time cancel that declaration by a subsequent declaration.

3 — Every Member for which a declaration made under paragraph 1 of this article is in force shall indicate in its reports upon the application of this Convention the position of its law and practice in regard to the provisions of the Part excluded from its acceptance, the extent to which effect has been given, or is proposed to be given, to the said provision and the reasons for which it has not yet included them in its acceptance of the Convention.

ARTICLE 13

1 — A Member may take all necessary measures which fall within its competence and collaborate with other Members to facilitate the reunification of the families of all migrant workers legally residing in its territory.

2 — The members of the family of the migrant worker to which this article applies are the spouse and dependent children, father and mother.

ARTICLE 14

A Member may:

a) Make the free choice of employment, while

assuring migrant workers the right to geographical mobility, subject to the conditions that the migrant worker has resided lawfully in its territory for the purpose of employment for a prescribed period not exceeding two years or, if its laws or regulations provide for contracts for a fixed term of less than two years, that the worker has completed his first work contract;

b) After appropriate consultation with the rep-

resentative organizations of employers and workers, make regulations concerning recognition of occupational qualifications acquired outside its territory, including certificates and diplomas;

ARTICLE 17

The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.

ARTICLE 18

1 — This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the International Labour Organization whose ratifications have been registered with the Director-General.

2 — It shall come into force twelve months after the date on which the ratifications of two Members have been registered with the Director-General.

3 — Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member twelve months after the date on which its ratification has been registered.

ARTICLE 19

1 — A Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after the expiration of ten years from the date on which the Convention first comes into force, by an act communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration. Such denunciation shall not take effect until one year after the date on which it is registered.

2 — Each Member which has ratified this Convention and which does not, whithin the year following the expiration of the period of ten years mentioned