Carriage by Air (Supplementary Provisions) Act 1962

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 [9 & 10 Eliz. 2 c. 27.] Carriage by Air Act, 1961, comes into force, the Convention set out in the First Schedule to the [22 & 23 Geo. 5. c. 36.] 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.