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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-by-air-act-1961/schedule-1/part-I/chapter-III/crossheading-article-21/paragraph-wrapper156n1",
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  "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/III/crossheading/article-21/paragraph/wrapper156n1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(2) In the carriage of cargo, if the carrier proves that the damage was caused by or contributed to by the negligence or other wrongful act or omission of the person claiming compensation, or the person from whom he derives his rights, the carrier shall be wholly or partly exonerated from his liability to the claimant to the extent that such negligence or wrongful act or omission caused or contributed to the damage.",
  "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 with saving for Schedule 1 as originally enacted, containing the provisions of the Warsaw Convention with the amendments made in it by the Hague Protocol, by Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 (c. 28, SIF 9),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)"
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  "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."
}