Air Navigation and Transport Act, 1965

Interpretation of Guadalajara Convention.

3.—(1) In the Schedule to this Act “the Warsaw Convention” means in relation to carriage by air—

(a) if the carriage is under the Convention set out in the First Schedule to the Principal Act, that Convention, and

(b) if the carriage is under that Convention as amended by the Protocol set out in the Schedule to the Act of 1959, that Convention as so amended,

but, in relation to rights or liabilities arising out of an occurrence before the day on which Part III of the Act of 1959 came into operation, “the Warsaw Convention” means the Convention set out in the First Schedule to the Principal Act.

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