{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-of-goods-by-road-act-1965/section-8A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-of-goods-by-road-act-1965/section-8A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1965/37",
  "legislation_title": "Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-of-goods-by-road-act-1965",
  "path": "section/8A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8A",
  "heading": "Amendments consequential on revision of Convention.",
  "text": "(1) If at any time it appears to Her Majesty in Council that Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom have agreed to any revision of the Convention, Her Majesty may by Order in Council make such amendment of—\n(a) this Act; and\n(c) section 5(1) of the Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979,\nas appear to Her to be appropriate in consequence of the revision.\n(2) In the preceding subsection “revision” means an omission from, addition to or alteration of the Convention and includes replacement of the Convention or part of it by another convention.\n(3) An Order in Council under this section shall not be made unless a draft of the Order has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 8A inserted by Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 (c. 28), ss. 3(3), 7(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 8A(1)(a) substituted for paras. (a) and (b) by International Transport Conventions Act 1983 (c. 14, SIF 102), s. 9, Sch. 2 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1979 c. 28."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 8A explained by Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 (c. 28), s. 6(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/37/section/8A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:42.678732+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."
}