Carriage by Air Act 1961

The Carriage by Air Act 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 27) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that brought the amended (1955) Warsaw Convention into British law, repealing the Carriage by Air Act 1932 which gave the original (1929) Convention effect.

Carriage by Air Act 1961

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to give effect to the Convention concerning international carriage by air known as "the Warsaw Convention as amended at The Hague, 1955", to enable the rules contained in that Convention to be applied, with or without modification, in other cases and, in particular, to non-international carriage by air; and for connected purposes
Citation	9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 27
Territorial extent	United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent	22 June 1961
Status: Current legislation
Text of the Carriage by Air Act 1961 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

Act

Sections 1 and 2 of the Act cover its application to the United Kingdom, with Section 1 allowing it to come into force when the Queen makes an Order in Council authorising it, and Section 2 using the same procedure for changing or limiting its territorial extent. Section 5 creates a statute of limitations for the convention, saying that no claim of damages for a violation of the convention can be brought more than two years after the problem, defined as either the date the goods arrived or the date they should have arrived. Section 7 allows the Queen to exclude military people, cargo and aircraft from the convention, and Section 13 binds the Crown to following the Act.

Bibliography

• Johnson, D.H.N. (1962). "Carriage by Air Act, 1961". Modern Law Review. 25 (5). Blackwell Publishing. ISSN 0026-7961.