Section 2 Interpretation of Supplementary Convention.

United Kingdom

(1)

In the Schedule to this Act “the Warsaw Convention” means—

(a)

before the day on which section one of the M1Carriage by Air Act 1961, comes into force, the Convention set out in the First Schedule to the M2Carriage by Air Act 1932, and

C1(b)

on and after that day, F1whichever is applicable to the carriage in question of the Conventions set out in Schedules 1 and 1A to the said Act of 1961,

F2...

(2)

In Articles VII and VIII in the Schedule to this Act “court” includes (in an arbitration allowed by the Conventions referred to in the foregoing subsection or by Article IX, 3 in the Schedule to this Act) an arbitrator.

(3)

In the application to Scotland of the Schedule to this Act and of the foregoing provisions of this section, for references to an arbitrator and a plaintiff there shall be substituted respectively references to an arbiter and a pursuer.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 2(1)(b) substituted (21.5.1999) by S.I. 1999/1312, art. 3(2)
F2: Words in s. 2(1) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 4

Marginal citations

M1: 1961 c. 27.
M2: 1932 c. 36.

Modifications

C1: S. 2(1)(b) amended (prosp.) by Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 (c. 28, SIF 9), ss. 6(2), 7(2)