{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-by-air-act-1961/schedule-1B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-by-air-act-1961/schedule-1B.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/1B",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1B",
  "heading": "CONVENTION",
  "text": "THE STATES PARTIES TO THIS CONVENTION\nRECOGNIZING the significant contribution of the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air signed in Warsaw on 12th October 1929, hereinafter referred to as the “Warsaw Convention”, and other related instruments to the harmonization of private international air law;\nRECOGNIZING the need to modernize and consolidate the Warsaw Convention and related instruments;\nRECOGNIZING the importance of ensuring protection of the interests of consumers in international carriage by air and the need for equitable compensation based on the principle of restitution;\nREAFFIRMING the desirability of an orderly development of international air transport operations and the smooth flow of passengers, baggage and cargo in accordance with the principles and objectives of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, done at Chicago on 7 December 1944;\nCONVINCED that collective State action for further harmonization and codification of certain rules governing international carriage by air through a new Convention is the most adequate means of achieving an equitable balance of interests;\nHAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:\n[Paragraphs 53 (save for part of paragraph 2), 54 and 56 and the concluding words of the Convention are not reproduced. They deal with signature, ratification, coming into force, denunciation and territorial extent where a State has more than one system of law]\n[Paragraphs 53 (save for part of paragraph 2), 54 and 56 and the concluding words of the Convention are not reproduced. They deal with signature, ratification, coming into force, denunciation and territorial extent where a State has more than one system of law]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1B inserted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)) by S.I. 2002/263, art. 2(25) (with art. 1(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/27/schedule/1B",
    "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."
}