CONVENTION NO.
19
CONCERNING EQUALITY OF TREATMENT FOR NATIONAL AND
FOREIGN WORKERS AS REGARDS WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION FOR
ACCIDENTS
(CONVENTION BROUGHT INTO FORCE FOR INDONESIA BY STATE
GAZETTE NO.53 OF 1929)
The General Conference of the International Labour Organization,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office,
and
Having met in its Seventh Session on 19 May 1925, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the equality of
treatment for national and foreign workers as regards workmen's compensation for accidents,
the second item in the agenda of the Session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention,
adopts the fifth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, the
following Convention, which may be cited as the Equality of Treatment (Accident
Compensation) Convention, 1925, for ratification by the Members of the International
Labour Organization in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the
International Labour Organization:
Article 1
1. Each Member of the International Labour Organization which ratifies this Convention
undertakes to grant to the nationals of any other Member which shall have ratified the
Convention, who suffer personal injury due to industrial accidents happening in its
territory, or to their dependants, the same treatment in respect of workmen's
compensation as it grants to its own nationals.
2. This equality of treatment shall be guaranteed to foreign workers and their dependants
without any condition as to residence. With regard to the payments which a Member or
its nationals would have to make outside that Member's territory in the application of
this principle, the measures to be adopted shall be regulated, if necessary, by special
arrangements between the Members concerned.
Article 2
Special agreements may be made between the Members concerned to provide that
compensation for industrial accidents happening to workers whilst temporarily or
intermittently employed in the territory of one Member on behalf of an undertaking situated
in the territory of another Member shall be governed by the laws and regulations of the latter
Member.
Article 3
The Members which ratify this Convention and which do not already possess a system,
whether by insurance or otherwise, of workmen's compensation for industrial accidents agree
to institute such a system within a period of three years from the date of their ratification.
Article 4
The Members which ratify this Convention further undertake to afford each other mutual
assistance with a view to facilitating the application of the Convention and the execution of
their respective laws and regulations on workmen's compensation and to inform the
International Labour Office, which shall inform the other Members concerned, of any
modifications in the laws and regulations in force on workmen's compensation.
Article 5
The formal ratifications of this Convention, under the conditions set forth in the Constitution
of the International Labour Organization, shall be communicated to the Director-General of
the International Labour Office for registration.
Article 6
1. This Convention shall come into force at the date on which the ratifications of two
Members of the International Labour Organization have been registered by the
Director-General.
2. It shall be binding only upon those Members whose ratifications have been registered
with the International Labour Office.
3. Thereafter, the Convention shall come into force for any member at the date on which
its ratification has been registered with the International Labour Office.
Article 7
As soon as the ratifications of two Members of the International Labour Organization have
been registered with the International Labour Office, the Director-General of the
International Labour Office shall so notify all the Members of the International Labour
Organization. He shall likewise notify them of the registration of the ratifications which may
be communicated subsequently by other Members of the Organization.
Article 8
Subject to the provisions of Article 6, each Member which ratifies this Convention agrees to
bring the provisions of Articles 1, 2, 3, and 4 into operation not later than 1 January 1927 and
to take such action as may be necessary to make these provisions effective.
Article 9
Each Member of the International Labour Organization which ratifies this Convention
engages to apply it to its colonies, possessions and protectorates, in accordance with the
provisions of Article 35 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization.
Article 10
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 with the International
Labour Office.
Article 11
At least once in ten years, the Governing Body of the International Labour Office shall
present to the General Conference a report on the working of this Convention and shall
consider the desirability of placing on the agenda of the Conference the question of its
revision or modification.
Article 12
The French and English texts of this Convention shall both be authentic.
