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1 1959

AIR NAVIGATION AND TRANSPORT ACT, 1959

PART III.

Provisions in relation to the 1955 Protocol to the Warsaw Convention.

Application of Part III.

6. —This Part shall apply only in respect of States which are parties to the 1955 Protocol to the Warsaw Convention.

1955 Protocol to the Warsaw Convention to have the force of law in the State.

7. —(1) The provisions of the 1955 Protocol to the Warsaw Convention, as set out in the Schedule to this Act, shall have the force of law in the State, and the following provisions of the Principal Act, namely section 18 (as amended by section 4 of this Act) and the First Schedule (as amended by section 5 of this Act) shall have effect accordingly.

(2) The Government may by order from time to time certify who are the parties to the 1955 Protocol to the Warsaw Convention, in respect of what territories they are respectively parties and to what extent they have availed themselves of the right of reservation provided for in Article XXVI of the 1955 Protocol to the Warsaw Convention.

(3) Any sum in francs mentioned in Article 22 of the First Schedule to the Principal Act, as amended by Article XI of the Schedule to this Act, shall, for the purposes of an action against the carrier, be converted into the currency of the State at the rate of exchange prevailing on the date on which the amount of any damages to be paid by the carrier is ascertained by the Court.