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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-by-air-act-1961/schedule-1/part-I/chapter-II/crossheading-section-3documentation-relating-to-cargo/crossheading/section-3documentation/relating/to/cargo/article-16_paragraph/1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-by-air-act-1961/schedule-1/part-I/chapter-II/crossheading-section-3documentation-relating-to-cargo/crossheading/section-3documentation/relating/to/cargo/article-16_paragraph/1.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": "schedule/1/part/I/chapter/II/crossheading/section-3documentation-relating-to-cargo/crossheading/section/3documentation/relating/to/cargo/article/16_paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The consignor must furnish such information and such documents as are necessary to meet the formalities of customs, octroi or police before the cargo can be delivered to the consignee. The consignor is liable to the carrier for any damage occasioned by the absence, insufficiency or irregularity of any such information or documents, unless the damage is due to the fault of the carrier, his servants or agents.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Schedule 1, containing the provisions of the Warsaw Convention as amended at the Hague in 1955 and by Protocols No. 3 and No. 4 signed at Montreal in 1975, substituted (prosp.) with saving for Schedule 1 as originally enacted, containing the provisions of the Warsaw Convention with the amendments made in it by the Hague Protocol, by Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 (c. 28, SIF 9), ss. 1(1)(3), 6(2), 7(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1979/28",
      "affecting_title": "Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979"
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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."
}