Explanatory note

This Order amends the Carriage of Goods by Road (Gibraltar) Order 1967, which extended to Gibraltar those provisions of the Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965 which give effect to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road, signed at Geneva on 19th May 1956 (Cmnd. 3455). It takes into account the amendment of the 1965 Act in the United Kingdom by section 4(2)(a) and (b) of the Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 and enables effect to be given in Gibraltar to the Protocol of 5th July 1978 (Cmnd. 7480) to the Convention. The Protocol substitutes Special Drawing Rights for gold francs as the unit of account to be used in connection with the Convention.