Air Navigation and Transport (International Conventions) Act 2004

Power of Government to certify contracting parties.

6.—(1) The Government may, by order notified in Iris Oifigiúil, certify—

(a) who are the contracting parties to any of the Carriage by Air Conventions, and

(b) in respect of what countries or territories they are respectively parties, and

(c) to what extent they have availed themselves of the Additional Protocols and Article 57(a) of the Montreal Convention.

(2) The Government may, by order notified in Iris Oifigiúil, certify any revision of the limits of liability established under the Montreal Convention.

(3) The provisions of the Carriage by Air Conventions specified in subsection (4) do not have the effect of extending references in the applicable provisions to the territory of a contracting party (except those that refer to the territory of a state, whether a contracting party or not) so as to include a territory in respect of which the contracting party is not a party.

(4) The following provisions are specified for the purposes of subsection (3):

(a) Article 40 of the Warsaw Convention;

(b) Article 40A of that Convention as amended;

(c) Paragraph 1 of Article 56 of the Montreal Convention.

(5) An order made under this section may include such transitional and consequential provisions as appear to the Government to be necessary.