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1. An Instrument of Ratification will be deposited with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) following consideration of the Convention in accordance with the international treaty examination process. The Convention entered into force on 24 April 1988. It will enter into force for New Zealand twelve months after the date on which its ratification has been registered with the Director General of the ILO.
Advantages
2. It is assessed that there are a number of advantages to New Zealand of the Convention entering into force for New Zealand, namely:
Disadvantages
3. It is assessed that there are no disadvantages to New Zealand of the Convention entering into force for New Zealand. While the range of statistics to be collected, compiled and published would increase under the Convention, the Government already collects the Statistics required by the Convention and currently provides the majority of these statistics to the ILO.
4. No specific economic, social, cultural or environmental effects have been identified from either the Convention entering into force or not entering into force. The Convention supports New Zealand’s belief in the long-term social benefits of the ILO having access to quality, comprehensive, internationally comparable data with which to work.
5. By ratifying this Convention, New Zealand would undertake to:
6. Ratification of the Convention would result in ongoing reporting requirements to the ILO. The reporting requirements apply to all member States that have ratified ILO Conventions and will be the same as the current reporting obligations for Convention 63. One year after the Convention would come into force for New Zealand, the Government would be required to provide a detailed report to the ILO on the situation with regard to New Zealand’s domestic law and practice as they comply with the provisions of the Convention. Further detailed reports would be required every five years after the first report. These reports would be scrutinised by supervisory bodies established by the ILO to have responsibility for regular supervision of the observance by member States of their standards-related obligations.
7. The provisions of the Convention allow ratifying States to limit their acceptance of the obligations of the Convention, in that they may limit the subject areas and/or the scope of the statistics upon which they commit to report until such future time that they consider they are able to do so. New Zealand would not need to stipulate any limitations on the acceptance of the obligations of the Convention as it is assessed that New Zealand will be in a position to fully comply with the obligations.
8. It is assessed that there are no associated costs to achieve the ongoing fulfilment of New Zealand’s obligations under the Convention.
9. At this stage there are no plans by the ILO to adopt any subsequent protocols or other amendments to the Convention.
10. An assessment of law, policy and practice with the provisions of the Convention indicates that the existing mechanisms for data collection, compilation and publication will be sufficient to fulfil New Zealand’s obligations under the Convention without the need for any legislative changes.
11. Relevant Government Departments have been consulted.
12. The NZCTU and NZEF have been consulted and both organisations support ratification.
13. The Convention allows a member State to denounce the Convention after the expiration of ten years from the date on which the Convention first comes into force, by notifying the Director-General of the International Labour Office in writing. Such denunciation cannot take effect until one year after the date on which it is registered.
14. If a member State that has ratified the Convention does not, within the year following the expiration of the period of ten years mentioned in the preceding paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation provided for in the Convention, it will be bound for another period of ten years and, thereafter, may denounce the Convention at the expiration of each period of ten years.
