CONEIDENTIAL
contractual
carrier
or
the
carrier actual
of liability
under the Convention or fixing a lower limit than that required by the Convention shall be null and void (Article
9).
4.
Article 14 of the Convention provides that the Convention is open for accession by any State Member of the United Nations or of any of the Specialised Agencies. Under Article 16, any Contracting State may declare by
notification
to the Government of the United States of
to shall extend
any of the
international relations it is
Mexico that the
territories for
Convention
whose
responsible.
Benefits
5.
The Guadalajara Convention was devised because of modern transport operations in which one party can enter
into a contract
(for example,
another party
as
of carriage with a passenger or consignor charterer or freight forwarder), whereas
in fact performs the actual carriage without being in direct contractual relationship with the passenger or consignor. The application of the Convention therefore
ensures
that
both the contracting
party
and the actual
performing party are
equally governed by
international
rules on air carriage.
Proposal
The British
side
proposes
that the
To achieve
6.
Convention
should continue to apply to the Hong Kong SAR after 30 Junc
in accordance with the Joint Declaration. 1997 this result it will be necessary for the CPG in some way to
indicate
all to
Governments
Contracting present
Parties,
and all
which may become parties before 1 July 1997,
USA