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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-by-air-act-1961/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-by-air-act-1961/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/27",
  "legislation_title": "Carriage by Air Act 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-by-air-act-1961",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to give effect to the Convention concerning international carriage by air known as “the Warsaw Convention as amended at The Hague, 1955\", to enable the rules contained in that Convention to be applied, with or without modification, in other cases and, in particular, to non-international carriage by air; and for connected purposes.\n[22nd June 1961]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act saved by Nuclear Installations Act 1965 (c. 57),s. 12(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Power to apply Act given by Hovercraft Act 1968 (c. 59), s. 1(1)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act applied with modifications (in relation to hovercraft) by S. I. 1986/1305, arts. 3, 5, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act applied (6.8.2004) by The Carriage by Air Acts (Application of Provisions) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1899), art. 8 (with arts. 1(3), 3)"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:10:25.963794+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}