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Item No.

CONFIDENT

[13.7)

International

of

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Convention

Convention

for the Unification

Certain Rules of Law Relating to Bill of

Lading, Brussels, 1924

the International

the Unification of Certain Relating to Bills of Lading,

(13.7 (1)]

Protocol

to

Amend

Convention

for

Aules of Law

Brussels, 1968

[13.7(2)]

Protocol

Amending

denun-

Convention

ciation

made by

UK in

respect

of HK?

the

Interna

national for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law Relating to Bills of Lading, Brussels, 1979

1.

were

The Convention and its two Protocols concluded in Brussels on 25 August 1924; 23 February 1968, and 21 December 1979 respectively. The UK ratified the Convention on 2 June 1930, the 1968 Protocol on 1 October 1976, and (the 1979 Protocol on 21 December 1979. Hong Kong was included in the UK ratifications. The PRC is not a party to the Convention of the Protocols.

2.

to

which

It

The Convention establishes certain uniform rules of law relating to bills of lading.

sets forth a list of conditions carrier under every contract of carriage of goods by sea shall be subject. The provisions of the Convention apply to all bills of lading relating to the carriage of goods between ports in two different states if the bill of lading is issued in Contracting State or the carriage is from a

in a Contracting State or the relevant Contract provides that the rules of this

Convention are

(Article 10 as

the Convention

State.

to

govern

the contract

amended). Under Article 12,

is open to accession by any

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