Singapore legislation

Clause 15

of Carriage by Air (Montreal Convention, 1999) Bill

Clause 15

Related amendments to Carriage by Air Act

The Carriage by Air Act (Cap. 32A) is amended —

(a)

by repealing section 4 and substituting the following section:“High Contracting Parties4.—

(1)

For the purposes of this Act —

(a)

a High Contracting Party to the Warsaw Convention is a country that has ratified or acceded to that Convention;

(b)

a High Contracting Party to the Warsaw (Hague) Convention is a country that has ratified or acceded to that Convention; and

(c)

a High Contracting Party to the Warsaw (Hague) (Montreal) Convention is a country that has ratified or acceded to that Convention,except that this Act shall apply to any such High Contracting Party —

(i)

only in relation to the territories in respect of which it is a party to the Warsaw Convention, the Warsaw (Hague) Convention or the Warsaw (Hague) (Montreal) Convention, as the case may be; and

(ii)

to the extent that it has availed itself of the provisions of the Additional Protocol at the end of the Warsaw Convention, the Warsaw (Hague) Convention and the Warsaw (Hague) (Montreal) Convention, as the case may be.(2) Article 40A(2) in the First and Third Schedules shall not be read as extending references in those Schedules to the territory of a High Contracting Party (except such as are references to the territory of any State, whether a High Contracting Party or not) to include any territory in respect of which that High Contracting Party is not a party.”; and

(b)

by deleting subsection (5) of section 8.

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