Regulation (EC) No 1371/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on rail passengers’ rights and obligations (c. 1371)

ANNEX I U.K. Extract from Uniform Rules concerning the contract for international carriage of passengers and luggage by rail (CIV)

Appendix A to the Convention Concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) of 9 May 1980, as modified by the Protocol for the modification of the Convention Concerning International Carriage by Rail of 3 June 1999

TITLE IV U.K. LIABILITY OF THE CARRIER

Chapter I U.K. Liability in case of death of, or personal injury to, passengers

Article 27 U.K. Damages in case of death

1. In case of death of the passenger the damages shall comprise:

(a) any necessary costs following the death, in particular those of transport of the body and the funeral expenses;

(b) if death does not occur at once, the damages provided for in Article 28.

2. If, through the death of the passenger, persons whom he had, or would have had, a legal duty to maintain are deprived of their support, such persons shall also be compensated for that loss. Rights of action for damages of persons whom the passenger was maintaining without being legally bound to do so, shall be governed by national law.