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 deciped upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to social security for seafarers, which is the second item on the agenda of the Session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an International Convention,
adopts this twenty-eighth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six the following Convention which may be cited as the Social Security (Seafarers) Convention, 1946:
