of food supplies and always under the condition that the food or produce shall
remain the property of the individuals or the community producing it.
19. (2)
Nothing in this Article shall be construed as abrogating the
obligation on members of a community, where production is organised on a
communal basis by virtue of law or custom and where the produce or any profit
accruing from the sale thereof remain the property of the community, to perform
the work demanded by the community by virtue of law or custom.
Article 20
20.
Collective punishment laws under which a community may be
punished for crimes committed by any of its members shall not contain provisions
for forced or compulsory labour by the community as one of the methods of
punishment.
Article 21
21.
Forced or compulsory labour shall not be used for work
underground in mines.
Article 22
22.
The annual reports that Members which ratify this Convention
agree to make to the International Labour Office, pursuant to the provisions of
Article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, on the
measures they have taken to give effect to the provisions of this Convention,
shall contain as full information as possible, in respect of each territory
concerned, regarding the extent to which recourse has been had to forced or
compulsory labour in that territory, the purposes for which it has been employed,
the sickness and death rates, hours of work, methods of payment of wages and
rates of wages, and any other relevant information.
Article 23
23. (1)
To give effect to the provisions of this Convention the competent
authority shall issue complete and precise regulations governing the use of
forced or compulsory labour.
23.(2)
These regulations shall contain, inter alia, rules permitting any
person from whom forced or compulsory labour is exacted to forward all
complaints relative to the conditions of labour to the authorities and ensuring that
such complaints will be examined and taken into consideration.
Article 24
24.
Adequate measures shall in all cases be taken to ensure that the
regulations governing the employment of forced or compulsory labour are strictly
applied, either by extending the duties of any existing labour inspectorate which
has been established for the inspection of voluntary labour to cover the
inspection of forced or compulsory labour or in some other appropriate manner.