Carriage by Air (Supplementary Provisions) Act 1962



Carriage by Air (Supplementary Provisions) Act, 1962

(10 & 11 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 43

An Act to give effect to the Convention, supplementary to the Warsaw Convention, for the unification of certain rules relating to international carriage by air performed by a person other than the contracting carrier; and for connected purposes.

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

S-1 Supplementary Convention to have force of law.

1 Supplementary Convention to have force of law.

(1) The provisions of the Convention, supplementary to the Warsaw Convention, for the unification of certain rules relating to international carriage by air performed by a person other than the contracting carrier, as set out in the Schedule to this Act, shall, so far as they relate to the rights and liabilities of carriers, carriers' servants and agents, passengers, consignors, consignees, and other persons, and subject to the provisions of this Act, have the force of law in the United Kingdom in relation to any carriage by air to which the Convention applies, irrespective of the nationality of the aircraft performing that carriage.

(2) If there is any inconsistency between the text in English in Part I of the Schedule to this Act and the text in French in Part II of that Schedule, the text in French shall prevail.

S-2 Interpretation of Supplementary Convention.

2 Interpretation of Supplementary Convention.

(1) In the Schedule to this Act ‘the Warsaw Convention’ means—

(a ) before the day on which section one of the Carriage by Air Act, 1961 , comes into force, the Convention set out in the First Schedule to the Carriage by Air Act, 1932 , and

(b ) on and after that day, the Convention set out in the First Schedule to the said Act of 1961,

but, in relation to rights or liabilities arising out of an occurrence before that day, ‘the Warsaw Convention’ shall continue to have the same meaning as before that day.

(2) In Articles VII and VIII in the Schedule to this Act ‘court’ includes (in an arbitration allowed by the Conventions referred to in the foregoing subsection or by Article IX, 3 in the Schedule to this Act) an arbitrator.

(3) In the application to Scotland of the Schedule to this Act and of the foregoing provisions of this section, for references to an arbitrator and a plaintiff there shall be substituted respectively references to an arbiter and a pursuer.

S-3 Application of provisions of Acts of 1961 and 1932.

3 Application of provisions of Acts of 1961 and 1932.

(1) In paragraph (a and in subsections (2) and (3) of section four of the said Act of 1961 (which explain the limitations on liability in Article 22 in the First Schedule to that Act and enable a court to make appropriate orders and awards to give effect to those limitations) references to the said Article 22 shall include, subject to any necessary modifications, references to Article VI in the Schedule to this Act.

(2) In section five of the said Act of 1961 (which limits the time for bringing proceedings against a carrier's servant or agent and to obtain contribution from a carrier) references to a carrier include references to an actual carrier as defined in paragraph (c ) of Article I in the Schedule to this Act as well as to a contracting carrier as defined in paragraph (b ) of that Article.

(3) In section eight of the said Act of 1961 (which relates to actions against States brought in the United Kingdom in accordance with Article 28 in the First Schedule to that Act) and in section two of the said Act of 1932 (which contains corresponding provisions) the reference to Article 28 shall include a reference to Article VIII in the Schedule to this Act.

S-4 Interim protection for carries' servants and agents.

4 Interim protection for carries' servants and agents.

4. Article V in the Schedule to this Act, and so much of Article VI in that Schedule as limits the aggregate amount which can be recovered from a carrier and his servants and agents, shall, in relation to rights or liabilities arising out of an occurrence before the day on which Article 25A in the First Schedule to the said Act of 1961 (to which those provisions are supplementary) comes into force, apply not only in relation to carriage performed by an actual carrier and to the persons mentioned in those provisions but also in relation to any other carriage governed by the Convention set out in the First Schedule to the said Act of 1932 and to any carrier under that Convention and his servants and agents.

S-5 Application to British possessions, etc., and to carriage by air not governed by Supplementary Convention.

5 Application to British possessions, etc., and to carriage by air not governed by Supplementary Convention.

(1) Section nine of the said Act of 1961 (which enables Her Majesty to extend that Act to British possessions and other territories) shall (except so far as it relates to United Kingdom trust territories) apply to this Act as it applies to that Act, and an order under that section may relate to both that Act and this Act.

(2) Section ten of the said Act of 1961 (which enables Her Majesty to apply the First Schedule and other provisions of that Act to carriage by air which is not governed by the Convention set out in that Schedule) shall apply to the Schedule and other provisions of this Act as it applies to that Act, and an order under that section may relate to both that Act and this Act.

(3) Before the day on which section one of the said Act of 1961 comes into force, in subsections (1) and (2) of this section the references to sections nine and ten of the said Act of 1961 shall be read respectively, subject to any necessary modifications, as references to sections three and four of the said Act of 1932 (which contain corresponding provisions).

(4) This section shall come into force on the passing of this Act.

S-6 Application to Crown.

6 Application to Crown.

(1) This Act shall bind the Crown.

(2) This section shall not have effect before the day on which section one of the said Act of 1961 comes into...

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