Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (c. 21)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7 U.K. Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 7 extended (with modifications) to Anguilla, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (30.11.1997) by 1997/2579, art. 2, Schs. 1, 2

Part I U.K. Text of Convention

Article 7 U.K.

The limit for passenger claims U.K.

[F1 1 U.K. In respect of claims arising on any distinct occasion for loss of life or personal injury to passengers of ship, the limit of liability of the shipowner thereof shall be an amount of 175,000 Units of Account multiplied by the number of passengers which the ship is authorised to carry according to the ship’s certificate.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 7 Pt. I Ch. II Art. 7 para. 1 substituted (with effect in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by S.I. 1998/1258, arts. 4(b), 8, Sch.

2 U.K. For the purpose of this Article “claims for loss of life or personal injury to passengers of a ship” shall mean any such claims brought by or on behalf of any person carried in that ship:

(a) under a contract of passenger carriage, or

(b) who, with the consent of the carrier, is accompanying a vehicle or live animals which are covered by a contract for the carriage of goods.