{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-by-air-act-1961/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-by-air-act-1961/section-6.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": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Contributory negligence.",
  "text": "(1) It is hereby declared that for the purposes of the provisions mentioned in subsection (2) the Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945 (including that Act as applied to Scotland), and section two of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1948, are provisions of the law of the United Kingdom under which a court may exonerate the carrier wholly or partly from his liability.\n(2) The provisions are—\n(a) Article 21 of the Convention;\n(b) Article 21 of the Convention as amended; and\n(c) Article 20 of the Montreal Convention.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 6: the existing provision becomes subsection (1) (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)) by S.I. 2002/263, art. 2(18)(a) (with art. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)) by S.I. 2002/263, art. 2(18)(b) (with art. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 6(2) inserted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)) by S.I. 2002/263, art. 2(19) (with art. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1945 c. 28."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1948 c. 23 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 6 applied (with modifications) (6.8.2004) by The Carriage by Air Acts (Application of Provisions) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1899), arts. 1(2), 7(2), Sch. 2, Sch. 3 (with arts. 1(3), 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 6 applied (with modifications) (6.8.2004) by The Carriage by Air Acts (Application of Provisions) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1899), arts. 1(2), 7(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 1(3), 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/27/section/6",
    "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."
}