Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1996, published 85th ILC session (1997)

With reference to the comments made by the Fishing Vessels Employees' Union in its communication of 1991 concerning the working conditions of coastal fishermen, the Committee notes from the Government's report that an updated Pakistan Merchant Shipping Draft Bill 1994, incorporating the corrections, amendments, reconsiderations and additions, made by the Law and Justice Division, would be submitted to the Cabinet for approval before its submission to the National Assembly.

The Committee hopes that the Draft Bill, as well as subsequent rules, will be adopted in the near future and that its provisions will give effect to the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to provide a copy of this text as soon as it has been adopted.