Carriage by Air Act 1961

CHAPTER V General and Final Provisions

Article 32

Any clause contained in the contract and all special agreements entered into before the damage occurred by which the parities purport to infringe the rules laid down by this Convention, whether by decoding the law to be applied, or by altering the rules as to jurisdiction, shall be null and void. Nevertheless or (the carriage of cargo arbitration Clauses are allowed, subject Ito this Convention, if the arbitration is to take place within one of She jurisdictions referred to in the first paragraph of Article 28.

Article 33

Nothing contained in this Convention shall prevent the carrier either from refusing to enter into any contract of carriage, or from making regulations which do not conflict with the provisions of this Convention.

Article 34

The provisions of Articles 3 to 9 inclusive (relating (to documents of carriage shall not apply in the case of carriage performed in extraordinary circumstances outside the normal scope of an air carrier's, business.

Article 35

The expression " days" when used in this Convention means-current days not working days.

Article 36

The Convention is drawn up in French in a single copy which shall remain deposited in the archives of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Poland and of which one duly certified copy shall be sent by the Polish Government to the Government of each of the High Contracting Parties.

Article 40A

(1) [This paragraph is not reproduced. It defines "High Contracting Party ".]

(2) For the purposes of the Convention the word territory means that only the metropolitan territory of a State but also all other territories for the foreign relations of which that State is responsible.

(Articles 37, 38, 39, 40 and 41 and the concluding words of the Convention are not reproduced. They deal with the coming into-force of the Convention.)

Additional Protocol (With reference to Article 2)

The High Contracting Parties reserve to themselves the right to declare at the time of ratification or of accession that the first paragraph of Article 2 of this Convention shall not apply to international carriage by air performed directly by the State, its colonies, protectorates or mandated territories or by any other territory under its sovereignty, suzerainty or authority.