International Transport Conventions Act 1983

1 Convention to have the force of law

(1) The Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail signed on behalf of the United Kingdom on 9th May 1980 shall have the force of law in the United Kingdom.

(2) In this Act " the Convention" means the Convention referred to in subsection (1) above including, except where the context otherwise requires—

(a) the protocol on the privileges and immunities of the intergovernmental organisation set up by the Convention ; and

(b) the uniform rules in Appendix A and Appendix B to the Convention together with the Annexes to Appendix B.

(3) The provisions having the force of law by virtue of this section are—

(a) the provisions of the Convention as presented to Parliament in April 1982 and set out in Command Paper 8535 ; and

(b) as respects Annexes I, II and III to Appendix B to the Convention, the provisions referred to in that Command Paper;

and judicial notice shall be taken of those provisions as if they were contained in this Act.

(4) If after the coming into force of this section the provisions referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (3) above are republished in one or more Command Papers in the Treaty Series that subsection shall have effect as if it referred to that or those Command Papers instead of to the Command Paper there mentioned.