The Carriage by Air Acts (Implementation of the Montreal Convention 1999) Order 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 263

CIVIL AVIATION

The Carriage by Air Acts (Implementation of the Montreal Convention 1999) Order 2002

Made

12th February 2002

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 12th day of February 2002

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament and has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament, in accordance with section 8A of the Carriage by Air Act 1961(1) and section 4A of the Carriage by Air (Supplementary Provisions) Act 1962(2);

Whereas it appears to Her Majesty in Council that Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom has agreed to a revision of the Warsaw Convention as amended at The Hague, 1955 comprising the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air done at Montreal on 28 May 1999(3);

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 8A of the Carriage by Air Act 1961 and section 4A of the Carriage by Air (Supplementary Provisions) Act 1962, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows—

(1)

1961 c. 27. Section 8A was inserted by section 3(1) of the Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 (c. 28) and came into force on 22 October 1998 (S.I. 1998/2562). It was amended by paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the International Transport Conventions Act 1983 (c. 14).

(2)

1962 c. 43. Section 4A was inserted by section 3(2) of the Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 and came into force on 12 October 2000 (S.I. 2000/2768).

(3)

Cm. 4651.