Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 243

The Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) Order 1988

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1988 No. 243

CIVIL AVIATION

The Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) Order 1988

Made	17th February 1988

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 17th day of February 1988

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 2(1) of the Carriage by Air Act 1961^[1] (which provides that Her Majesty may by Order in Council from time to time certify who are the High Contracting Parties to the Warsaw Convention as amended at The Hague, 1955, relating to international carriage by air, in respect of what territories they are respectively parties and to what extent they have availed themselves of the provisions of the Additional Protocol to the said Convention), by section 2(4) of that Act (which provides that an Order in Council under section 2 may contain such transitional and other consequential provisions as appear to Her Majesty to be expedient) and by those subsections as applied to international carriage under the unamended Warsaw Convention by article 5 of the Carriage by Air Acts (Application of Provisions) Order 1967^[2] is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

    1.    This Order may be cited as the Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) Order 1988.

    2.    It is hereby certified that the High Contracting Parties to the Warsaw Convention, 1929, and to the Warsaw Convention as amended at The Hague, 1955, and the territories in respect of which they are respectively parties are as specified in Schedule 1 to this Order.

    3.    In the said Schedule 1 an asterisk in a column opposite the name of a territory means that this Order does not certify that a State is a party, in respect of that territory, to the Convention named at the head of the column.

    4.    It is hereby certified that the High Contracting Parties specified in Schedule 2 to this Order have availed themselves of the provisions of the Additional Protocol to the Convention to which they are hereby certified as Parties, by declaring that the first paragraph of article 2 to the Convention shall not apply to international carriage by air performed directly by the State or any territory or possession under its jurisdiction.

    5.    The Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) Order 1977^[3], the Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) (Supplementary) Order 1977^[4] and the Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) (Supplementary) Order 1978^[5] are superseded by this Order.

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

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Notes:

[1] 1961 c. 27.

[2] S.I. 1967/480.

[3] S.I. 1977/240.

[4] S.I. 1977/1631.

[5] S.I. 1978/1058.

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