should not be required to meet any conditions of local residence or affiliation which might be 164 required of nationals. The same must apply to stateless persons. As the Convention does not contain a definition of “public relief and assistance” it will depend on the special situation in every Contracting State how much assistance a 165 stateless person is to receive. No difficulties will, as a rule, arise in practice concerning the delimitation between public relief and assistance on the one hand, and social security on the other, because the Convention provides for the same treatment, in both instances, except for the cases enumerated in Article 24 (1) (b) (i) and (ii). Article 24 Labour legislation and social security 1. The Contracting States shall accord to stateless persons lawfully staying in their territory the same treatment as is accorded to nationals in respect of the following matters: (a) In so far as such matters are governed by laws or regulations or are subject to the control of administrative authorities: remuneration, including family allowances where these form part of remuneration, hours of work, overtime arrangements, holidays with pay, restrictions on home work, minimum age of employment, apprenticeship and training, women’s work and the work of young persons, and the enjoyment of the benefits of collective bargaining. (b) Social security (legal provisions in respect of employment injury, occupational diseases, maternity, sickness, disability, old age, death, unemployment, family responsibilities and any other contingency which according to national laws or regulations, is covered by a social security scheme), subject to the following limitations: (i) There may be appropriate arrangements for the maintenance of acquired rights and rights in course of acquisition; (ii) National laws or regulations of the country of residence may prescribe special arrangements concerning benefits or portions of benefits which are payable wholly out of public funds, and concerning allowances paid to persons who do not fulfil the contribution conditions prescribed for the award of a normal pension. 2. The right to compensation for the death of a stateless person resulting from employment injury or from occupational disease shall not be affected by the fact that the residence of the beneficiary is outside the territory of the Contracting State. 3. The Contracting States shall extend to stateless persons the benefits of agreements concluded between them, or which may be concluded between them in the future, concerning the maintenance of acquired rights and rights in the process of acquisition in regard to social security, subject only to the conditions which apply to nationals of the States signatory to the agreements in question. 164 165 E/1850, para. 27, It was the view of certain members of the Ad Hoc Committee that this article did not deal with assistance to unemployed (SR.15, para. 21 ff) because in some countries unemployment benefits are part of social security while in others they are granted as part of the relief programme. The provision of Article 24 (1) (b) covers only such assistance to unemployed as results from social security benefits. For these reasons the French representative in the Ad Hoc Committee requested that a special reference to unemployment benefits not covered by insurance be included in the report, (Ibid., para. 34). Although this was not done it must be assumed that Article 23 covers these cases since they are pail of the relief programme.