Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979

Section 1(2).

SCHEDULE 2 Consequential etc Amendments of Carriage by Air Act 1961 and Carriage by Air (Supplementary Provisions) Act 1962

1 In section 1(1) of the [1961 c. 27.] Carriage by Air Act 1961 (which provides for the Warsaw Convention as amended at The Hague 1955 to have the force of law in the United Kingdom) after the words " 1955, as " there shall be inserted the words " further amended by provisions of protocols No. 3 and No. 4 signed at Montreal on 25th September 1975 and ".

2 In section 2(1) of that Act (which provides for Orders in Council to certify who are the High Contracting Parties to the Convention) after the words " who are " there shall be inserted the words " , either generally or in respect of specified matters, ".

3 In section 3 of that Act and in that section as set out in section 11(b) of that Act (which refer to liability under Article 17 of the Convention) for the words "Article 17" there shall be substituted the words " Article 17(1) ".

4 In section 4 of that Act (which relates to the limitations on liability in Article 22 of the Convention)—

(a) after the words " Article 22 " in subsections (1) and (5), except subsection (1)(b), there shall be inserted the words " and Article 22A "and after the words " Article 22 " in subsections (2) and (3) there shall be inserted the words " or Article 22A ";

(b) in subsection (1)(b) (which refers to paragraph (1) of Article 22) for the words " paragraph (1) " there shall be substituted the words " paragraph (1)(a) " ; and

(c) subsection (4) (which relates to amounts which are to be taken as equivalent to sums expressed in francs) shall be omitted.

5 In section 4 of the [1962 c. 43.] Carriage by Air (Supplementary Provisions) Act 1962 (which refers to the date of the coming into force of Article 25A of Schedule 1 to the said Act of 1961) after the words "1961 " there shall be inserted the words " as originally enacted ".

6 In paragraph 2 of Article III in Part I of the Schedule to the said Act of 1962 (which refers to the limits and the destination mentioned in Article 22 of the Convention), after the words " Article 22 " in both places there shall be inserted the words " or Article 22A " ; and in paragraph 2 of Article III in Part II of that Schedule (which contains the corresponding French text) after the words " l'article 22 " in both places there shall be inserted the words " ou à l'article 22A "