Bermuda Consolidated Legislation

 

UNITED KINGDOM STATUTORY INSTRUMENT

SI 1982 No. 1665

THE CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY SEA (PARTIES TO CONVEN TION) ORDER 1982

[made by Her Majesty in Council under the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971 and brought into operation on 1 December 1982 and published in Bermuda as BR 43/1983]

1 This Order may be cited as the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Parties to Convention) Order 1982 and shall come into operation on 1st Decem ber 1982.

2 It is hereby certified that the contracting States to the Interna tional Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of law relating to Bills of Lading signed at Brussels on 25th August 1924, as amended by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 23rd February 1968, and the territo ries in respect of which they are respectively contracting States are as listed in the schedule to this Order.

3 The Carriage of Goods by Sea (Parties to Convention) Order 1978 is hereby revoked.

 

SCHEDULE					Article 2
	Contracting States		Territories in respect of which they are res pectively parties		Dates on which the Conven tion as amended came into force
		The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland		Great Britain and Northern Ireland	23rd June 1977
				The Isle of Man	23rd June 1977
				Bermuda	1st February 1981
				Gibraltar	22nd December 1977
				Hong Kong	1st February 1981
		The Kingdom of Belgium		Belgium	6th December 1978
		The Kingdom of Denmark		Denmark	23rd June 1977
		The Republic of Ecuador		Ecuador	23rd June 1977
		The French Republic		France	23rd June 1977
		The German Democratic Republic		German Demo cra tic Republic	14th May 1979
		The Lebanese Republic		Lebanon	23rd June 1977
		The Kingdom of the Netherlands		The Kingdom of the Netherlands in Eu rope	26th July 1982
				The Netherlands An tilles	26th July 1982
		The Kingdom of Norway		Norway	23rd June 1977
		The Polish People's Repub lic		Poland	12th May 1980
		The Republic of Singapore		Singapore	23rd June 1977
		The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka		Sri Lanka	21st January 1982
		The Kingdom of Sweden		Sweden	23rd June 1977
		The Swiss Confederation		Switzerland	23rd June 1977
		The Syrian Arab Republic		Syria	23rd June 1977
		The Kingdom of Tonga		Tonga	13th September 1978

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note is not part of the Order)

The Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971 gives effect in the United Kingdom to the International Convention for the Unification of certain Rules of Law relating to Bills of Lading, signed at Brussels on 25th Au gust 1924 (Cmd. 3806), as amended by the Protocol of 23rd February 1968 (Cmnd. 6944)(commonly known as "the Hague-Visby Rules").

This Order, which revokes the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Parties to Convention) Order 1978, certifies the contracting States to the 1924 Convention as amended by the 1968 Protocol and the territories in re spect of which they are contracting States. Since the previous Order was made in 1978 the Rules have entered into force for the German Demo cratic Republic, the Netherlands, Poland, Sri Lanka, Bermuda and Hong Kong.

 

 

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