This Order may be cited as the Carriage by Air Acts (Implementation of the Montreal Convention 1999) Order 2002.

This Order shall come into force on the day the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air done at Montreal on 28 May 1999 comes into force or takes effect for the United Kingdom and the Secretary of State shall give notice of that day in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.

Nothing in this Order shall affect rights and liabilities arising out of an occurrence which took place before the coming into force of this Order.