UNITED KINGDOM

Air Navigation (Second Amendment) Order 1977. Civil Aviation Acts 1949, ss. 8, 57; 1971, s. 62(1). Article 3(2) operative Mar. 1, 1978. Articles 3(4), 3(5), 3(6), 3(7), 3(11) operative July 1, 1978. For all other purposes operative Feb. 1, 1978.

Arbitration (Foreign Awards) Order 1978. SI 186. This was operative on Mar. 2 and specifies States which are parties to the 1927 Geneva Convention on the execution of foreign arbitral awards, and which have satisfied Her Majesty that they have made reciprocal provisions. The original orders (SR & O 1931, No. 1066, SR & O 1932, No. 674, SR & O 1933, No. 544, SR & O 1938, No. 137, SI 1952/2035, SI 1953/1555, SI 1958/1051, SI 1960/436 and SI 1965/586) relating to those States are revoked. An arbitral award made in a Geneva Convention State is enforceable in the United Kingdom under Part 11 of the Arbitration Act 1950, except, where the State in question is also a New York Convention State, insofar as the award is enforceable under the Arbitration Act 1975.

Carriage by Air Act: Additions. The Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) (Supplementary) Order 1977 (SI 1631) was made on Oct. 11, 1977. The Carriage by Air Act 1961 gives effect in the United Kingdom to the Warsaw Convention as amended at The Hague, 1955, relating to international carriage by air, and the Carriage by Air Acts (Application of Provisions) Order 1967 (SI 480) makes transitional provision for the application of that Act to carriage still governed by the unamended Warsaw Convention, to which the U.K. remains a party. Under s. 2(1) of the Act and art. 5 of that order, Her Majesty may, by order in council, from time to time certify, inter alia, who are the High Contracting Parties to the Warsaw Convention, as amended at The Hague, and to the unamended Warsaw Convention, and such an order is conclusive evidence of the matters so certified. This order, which is supplementary to the Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) Order 1977 (SI 240), certifies Finland, Oman and Tonga as additional high contracting parties to the Convention, and the territories in respect of which they are parties.

Carriage by Air (Sterling Equivalents) Order 1978. Carriage by Air Act 1961, s. 4(4); Carriage by Air Acts (Application of Provisions) Order 1967, art. 6 (SI 1967/480). Operative Feb. 1, 1978.

Carriage by Air (Sterling Equivalents) Order 1978 (SI 31), which came into operation on Feb. 1, 1978, specifies the sterling equivalents of amounts, expressed in gold francs, as the limit of the air carrier’s liability under the Warsaw Convention of 1929, and under that Convention as amended by The Hague Protocol of 1955, as well as under corresponding provisions applying to carriage by air to which the Convention and Protocol do not apply. It supersedes the Carriage by Air (Sterling Equivalents) Order 1977 (SI 1). The sterling equivalents have been calculated by reference to the special drawing right (SDR) value of a gold franc converted into sterling at current market rates. The SDR is based on a basket of 16 major world currencies. The new sterling equivalents are as follows: 250 francs, £10.78; 5,000 francs, £216; 125,000 francs, £5,390; 250,000 francs, £10,780; 875,000 francs, £37,726.