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The Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea (United Kingdom Carriers) Order 1987
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1987 No. 855
MERCHANT SHIPPING
The Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea (United Kingdom Carriers) Order 1987
Made
28th April 1987
Coming into force
1st June 1987
The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 14 and 16 of, and by paragraphs 4 and 5 of Part II of Schedule 3 to, the Merchant Shipping Act 1979(1)and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:—
1. This Order may be cited as the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea (United Kingdom Carriers) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st June 1987.
2. In relation to any carrier whose principal place of business is in the United Kingdom, paragraph 1 of Article 7 to the Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, set out in Part I of Schedule 3 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1979, (including that paragraph as applied to domestic carriage by the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea (Domestic Carriage) Order 1987(2)) shall have effect as if for the limit of 700,000 francs there specified there were substituted a limit of 1,525,000 francs.
3. The Merchant Shipping (Sterling Equivalents) (Various Enactments) Order 1986(3)is hereby amended by substituting, in the table in article 3, the following entry for the entry for Article 7, paragraph 1:—
“Article 7, paragraph 1 (for carriers other than UK carriers) 700,000 £38,173.40
Article 7, paragraph 1 (for UK carriers) 1,525,000 £80,009.00.”
Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State
Michael Spicer
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
28th April 1987
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order increases the limit of liability of carriers whose principal place of business is in the United Kingdom for death or injury of passengers carried by them by sea to the amount of 1,525,000 gold francs per passenger per carriage, and fixes the sterling equivalent of that amount at £80,009.00.
The limit for other carriers remains that specified in the Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea (set out in Schedule 3 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1979), namely 700,000 gold francs (sterling equivalent currently £38,173.40).
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