Carriage of Passengers by Road Act 1974

Article 1

1 This Convention shall apply to every contract for the carriage of passengers and, where appropriate, of their luggage in vehicles by road when the contract provides that the carriage shall take place in the territory of more than one State and that the place of departure or the place of destination, or both these places, shall be situated on the territory of a Contracting State, irrespective of the place of residence and the nationality of the Parties.

2 For the purposes of this Convention:

(a) " carrier " means any person who in the course of trade or business, but acting other than as an operator of a taxi service or of a service hiring out vehicles with drivers, undertakes under an individual or collective contract of carriage to carry one or more persons and, where appropriate, their luggage, whether or not he performs the carriage himself;

(b) " passenger " means any person who, in the performance of a contract of carriage made by him or on his behalf, is carried either for reward or gratuitously by a carrier ;

(c) " vehicle " means any motor vehicle used in the performance of a contract of carriage and intended for the carriage of persons ; a trailer shall be deemed to form part of the vehicle.

3 This Convention shall also apply where the carrier is a State or other public body.

4 The Contracting States undertake not to vary any of the provisions of this Convention by special agreements between two or more of them, except to make it inapplicable to their frontier traffic.