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1. This Convention applies to all persons habitually employed for wages or salary:
2. Provided that any Member may in its national laws or regulations make such exceptions as it deems necessary in respect of:
(a) persons employed in domestic service;
(b) homeworkers;
(c) homeworkers whose employment is of a permanent character in the service of the government, a local authority or a public utility undertaking;
(d) non-manual workers whose earnings are considered by the competent authority to be sufficiently high for them to ensure their own protection against the risk of unemployment;
(e) workers whose employment is of a seasonal character if the season is normally of less than six months' duration and they are not ordinarily employed during the remainder of the year in other employment covered by this Convention;
(f) young workers under a prescribed age;
(g) workers who exceed a prescribed age and are in receipt of a retiring or old-age-pension;
(h) persons engaged only occasionally or subsidiarily in employment covered by this Convention;
(i) members of the employers' family;
(j) exceptional classes of workers in whose cases there are special features which make it unnecessary or impracticable to apply to them the provisions of this Convention.
3. Members shall state in the annual reports submitted by them upon the application of this Convention the exceptions which they have made under the foregoing paragraph.
4. This Convention does not apply to seamen, sea fishermen or agricultural workers as these categories may be defined by national laws or regulations.