Malaysia legislation

Section 2

of *CARRIAGE BY AIR ACT 1974

Section 2

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“Amended Convention” means the Convention as further amended by the Montreal Protocol No. 4 of 1975 as set out in the Fifth

Schedule;

“Carriage by Air Conventions” means the Convention, the

Supplementary Convention, the Amended Convention and the

Montreal Convention;

“Convention” means the Convention for the unification of certain rules relating to international carriage by air known as “the Warsaw

Convention as amended at The Hague 1955” as set out in the First

Schedule;

“court” includes (in an arbitration allowed by the Convention) an arbitrator;

“Minister” means the Minister responsible for civil aviation;

“Montreal Convention” means the Convention, signed at Montreal on the 28 May 1999, for the unification of certain rules relating to international carriage by air, as set out in the Sixth Schedule;

“Montreal Protocol No. 4 of 1975” means the protocol, signed at

Montreal on 25 September 1975, to amend the Warsaw Convention as amended at the Hague;

“State Party” means, a High Contracting Party in relation to the

Convention and the Amended Convention, or a State Party in relation to the Montreal Convention, as the case may be;

“Supplementary

Convention”

means the

Convention, supplementary to the Warsaw Convention, signed at Guadalajara on the 18 September 1961, for the unification of certain rules relating to

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international carriage by air performed by a person other than the contracting carrier, as set out in the Second Schedule.