Civil Aviation Act 1949

Section 42.

FIFTH SCHEDULE Limits of Liability

1 The limits of liability under subsection (1) of section forty-two of this Act in respect of such loss or damage as is mentioned in that subsection shall, in the case of an aircraft of any such description as is mentioned in the first column of the following Table, be an amount to be ascertained, in relation to that description of aircraft, by reference to the second column of the said Table.

Description of Aircraft	Limit of Liability
(a) Airships	£25,000.
(b) Balloons (whether fixed or free).	£5,000.
(c) Gliders	£2,000, so, however, that not more than £1,000 shall be payable in respect of loss of, or damage to, property.
(d) Other aircraft—
(i) if the weight of the aircraft fully loaded does not exceed 5,000 pounds.	£10,000, so, however, that not more more than £5,000 shall be payable in respect of loss of, or damage to, property.
(ii) if the weight of the aircraft fully loaded exceeds 5,000 pounds but does not exceed 10,000 pounds.	£10,000, so, however, that, in respect of loss of, or damage to, property, there shall not be payable more than £1 for each pound of the weight of the aircraft fully loaded.
(iii) if the weight of the aircraft fully loaded exceeds 10,000 pounds but does not exceed 25,000 pounds.	£1 for each pound of the weight of the aircraft fully loaded.
(iv) if the weight of the aircraft fully loaded exceeds 25,000 pounds.	£25,000.

2 References in the foregoing Table to pounds of weight shall be construed as references to pounds avoirdupois; and the Minister may by regulations prescribe the manner in which the weight of an aircraft fully loaded is to be ascertained for the purposes of this Schedule, and direct that, in the case of an aircraft of any particular description, such document as may be specified in the regulations, being a document which purports to show the weight of the aircraft fully loaded, shall be evidence of that weight