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This Order brings into force on 28th December 1980 the provisions of the Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 specified in the Schedule to the Order as a consequence of the entry into force on that date of a Protocol of the 5th July 1978 to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) (Cmnd. 7480). The Protocol introduces a new unit of account for the purposes of the Convention.