Prospective
[F1(2)However, the carrier is not liable if he proves that the destruction, loss of, or damage to, the cargo resulted solely from one or more of the following:
(a)inherent defect, quality or vice of that cargo;
(b)defective packing of that cargo performed by a person other than the carrier or his servants or agents;
(c)an act of war or an armed conflict;
(d)an act of public authority carried out in connection with the entry, exit or transit of the cargo.]
Textual Amendments
F1Schedule 1, containing the provisions of the Warsaw Convention as amended at the Hague in 1955 and by Protocols No. 3 and No. 4 signed at Montreal in 1975, substituted (prosp.) with saving for Schedule 1 as originally enacted, containing the provisions of the Warsaw Convention with the amendments made in it by the Hague Protocol, by Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 (c. 28, SIF 9), ss. 1(1)(3), 6(2), 7(2)