Chapter B. The Guadalajara Convention as applied by Schedu INTERNATIONAL CARRIAGE UNDER THE UNAMENDED WARSAW CONVENTION
In the Guadalajara Convention as applied by this Schedule:
(a)
“The Warsaw Convention” means the 1955 amended Convention as applied by this Schedule;
(b)
“contracting carrier” means a person who as a principal makes an agreement for carriage governed by the Warsaw Convention with a passenger or consignor or with a person acting on behalf of the passenger or consignor;
(c)
“actual carrier” means a person, other than the contracting carrier, who, by virtue of authority from the contracting carrier, performs the whole or part of the carriage contemplated in paragraph (b) but who is not with respect to such part a successive carrier within the meaning of the Warsaw Convention. Such authority is presumed in the absence of proof to the contrary.