1. This Order may be cited as the Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) Order 1988.

2. It is hereby certified that the High Contracting Parties to the Warsaw Convention, 1929, and to the Warsaw Convention as amended at The Hague, 1955, and the territories in respect of which they are respectively parties are as specified in Schedule 1 to this Order.

3. In the said Schedule 1 an asterisk in a column opposite the name of a territory means that this Order does not certify that a State is a party, in respect of that territory, to the Convention named at the head of the column.

4. It is hereby certified that the High Contracting Parties specified in Schedule 2 to this Order have availed themselves of the provisions of the Additional Protocol to the Convention to which they are hereby certified as Parties, by declaring that the first paragraph of article 2 to the Convention shall not apply to international carriage by air performed directly by the State or any territory or possession under its jurisdiction.

5. The Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) Order 1977(3), the Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) (Supplementary) Order 1977(4) and the Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) (Supplementary) Order 1978(5) are superseded by this Order.

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE 1

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Carriage by Air Act 1961 gives effect in the United Kingdom to the Warsaw Convention as amended at The Hague, 1955, relating to international carriage by air, and the Carriage by Air Acts (Application of Provisions) Order 1967 makes transitional provision for the application of that Act to carriage still governed by the unamended Warsaw Convention, to which the United Kingdom remains a party.

Under section 2(1) of the Act and article 5 of that Order, Her Majesty may by Order in Council from time to time certify, among other things, who are the High Contracting Parties to the Warsaw Convention as amended at The Hague and to the unamended Warsaw Convention, and such an Order is conclusive evidence of the matters so certified.

This Order, which supersedes the Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) Order 1977, the Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) (Supplementary) Order 1977 and the Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) (Supplementary) Order 1978, certifies the High Contracting Parties to the Convention as amended at The Hague and the unamended Convention, the territories in respect of which they are parties and the extent to which they have availed themselves of the provisions of the Additional Protocol to the Convention.