3 Amendment of Acts relating to carriage by air or road in consequence of revision of relevant conventions. U.K.
(1)In the Carriage by Air Act 1961, after section 8 there shall be inserted the following section —
“8A Amendments consequential on revision of Convention.
(1)If at any time it appears to Her Majesty in Council that Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom have agreed to a revision of the Convention, Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide that this Act, the Carriage by Air (Supplementary Provisions) Act 1962 and section 5(1) of the Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 shall have effect subject to such exceptions, adaptations and modifications as Her Majesty considers appropriate in consequence of the revision.
(2)In the preceding subsection “revision” means an omission from, addition to or alteration of the Convention and includes repalacement of the Convention or part of it by another convention.
(3)An Order in Council under this section shall not be made unless a draft of the Order has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.”
(2)In the Carriage by Air (Supplementary Provisions) Act 1962, after section 4 there shall be inserted the following section —
“4A Amendments consequential on revision of Supplementary Convention.
(1)Section 8A of the said Act of 1961 (which among other things enables Her Majesty in Council to alter that Act and this Act in consequence of any revision of the convention to which that Act the Convention in the Schedule to this Act as it has effect in relation to a revision of the Convention mentioned in that section but as if the reference in that section to the said Act of 1961 were omitted.
(2)An order under the said section 8A may relate both to that Act and this Act ; and in the preceding subsection “revision”, in relation to the Convention in the Schedule to this Act, means an omission from, addition to or alteration of that Convention and includes replacement of that Conventionofpart of it by another convention.”
(3)In the Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965, after section 8 there shall be inserted the following section —
“8A Amendments consequential on revision of Convention.
(1)If at any time it appears to Her Majesty in Council that Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom have agreed to any revision of the Convention, Her Majesty may by Order in Council make such amendment of —
(a)the provisions set out in the Schedule to this Act ; and
(b)the definition of, and references in this Act to, or to particular provisions of, the Convention ; and
(c)section 5(1) of the Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979,
as appear to Her to be appropriate in consequence of the revision.
(2)In the preceding subsection “revision”means an omission from, addition to or alteration of the Convention and includes replacement of the Convention or part of it by another convention.
(3)An order in Council under this section shall not be made unless a draft of the Order has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.”
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