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(£)

application of the Convention to air carriage

in the case of combined carriage performed partly by air and partly by any other mode of carriage (Article 31).

The Protocol

3.

The Hague Protocol (text at Annex_C) was signed on 28 September 1955 and entered into force on 1 August 1963.

The UK ratified the Pratbool on 3 March 1967 and HK was

included in the UK's ratification (reference at Annex D).

4.

The Hague Protocel amends certain provisions of the Warsaw Convention by int@oducing the following changes:

(a)

modernization and simplification of the rules relating tak the documents of carriage

(Articles 3-6)

(b) increase

respect to

liability with

the limit of

"persons" to 250,000

francs

(Article 11)

(c) revision of

misconduct"

(d)

provision concerning "wilful

that the limits of liability

with respect to acts or

with intent to cause damage or

with knowledge that damage

shall not

omissions dok

recklessly would probably result (Article 13);

application

servant or the scope of

the limits of liability to a

of the carrier acting within employment (Article 14).

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