International Carriage of Goods by Road Act, 1990

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Conversion of amounts in units of account into currency of State for purposes of CMR.

6.—(1) For the purpose of determining the amount of compensation in the currency of the State that may be awarded pursuant to CMR in proceedings in any court or other tribunal in respect of or arising out of carriage to which CMR applies, the value in the currency of the State of a unit of account specified in CMR shall be taken to be the value, ascertained in accordance with CMR, in that currency of such a unit of account on the day of the award or, if its value on that day cannot be so ascertained, its value in that currency on the latest day before such day on which it can be so ascertained.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a certificate purporting to be signed by an officer of the Central Bank of Ireland and stating that—

(a) a specified amount in the currency of the State is the value of such a unit of account on a specified day, or

(b) the value in the currency of the State of such a unit of account on a specified day cannot be ascertained in accordance with CMR and that a specified amount in the currency of the State is the value, calculated in accordance with CMR, of such a unit of account on a specified day (being the latest day before the first-mentioned specified day on which such value can be ascertained as aforesaid),

shall be admissible as evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.