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Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes with interest the information contained in the Government's brief report for the period ending September 1995 indicating that the draft Industrial Relations Act, 1995, which it states has taken into consideration the comments previously made by the Committee, has been approved, with some amendments, by the House of Assembly and that it was being submitted to the House of Senate. The Government further states that the draft Employment Act, 1995, is awaiting discussion by a tripartite committee before its submission to the competent authorities. The Committee hopes, as the Government anticipates, copies of the texts of both Acts will be sent to the Office as soon as they are adopted. The Committee reiterates its hope that in future the Government will be able to provide reports on the application of the Convention in accordance with the report form approved by the Governing Body, and dealing in particular with the following matters that the Committee has been raising for several years:

- Article 11, paragraphs 1(b) and 2, of the Convention (granting of car loans to labour inspectors and the provision of vehicles to the labour inspectorate);

- Article 13, paragraph 2(b) (the adoption of the Improvement and Prohibition Notices Regulations intended to empower inspectors to order measures with immediate executory force in the event of imminent danger to the health or safety of workers);

- Articles 20 and 21 (the need to resume the supply of annual inspection reports containing all the information listed in Article 21, particularly as regards numbers of workplaces liable to inspection and workers employed in them (Article 21(c)).