Introduction
CONFIDENTIAL
16th Draft Consultation Paper)
LOCALISATION OF UNITED KINGDOM ENACTMENTS
Carriage by Air
July 1993
This paper has been prepared as
a basis for consultation,
in accordance with the three principles for consultation agreed at the eighth meeting of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group, on the way in which the British side intends to localise certain provisions
in United Kingdom enactments which apply to Hong Kong.
enactments covered by this paper concern carriage by air.
The
Background
2.
The International Convention for the Unification of
certain Rules related to International Carriage by Air ("the Warsaw
Convention") was ratified by the United Kingdom on 14 February 1933
and was applied to Hong Kong on 3 December 1934.
3.
The Protocol amending the Warsaw Convention ("the Hague
Protocol") was ratified by the United Kingdom on 3 March 1967 and
was applied to Hong Kong on the same date.
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