(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).