The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office,
and having met in its Forty-third Session on 3 June 1959, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the medical examination
of fishermen, which is included in the fifth item on the agenda of the session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention,
adopts this nineteenth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine
the following Convention, which may be cited as the Medical Examination (Fishermen)
Convention, 1959: