THE WARSAW CONVENTION
Convention For The Unification Of Certain Rules Relating To International Carriage By Air, Signed At Warsaw On 12 October 1929
Chapter I - Scope And Definitions
Article 1
1. This Convention applies to all international carriage of persons,luggage or goods performed by aircraft for reward. It applies equally to gratuitous carriage by aircraft performed by an air transport undertaking.
2. For the purposes of this Convention the expression "internationalcarriage" means any carriage in which, according to the contract made by the parties, the place of departure and the place of destination, whether or not there be a break in the carriage or a transhipment, are situated either within the territories of two High Contracting Parties, or within the territory of a single High Contracting Party, if there is an agreed stopping place within a territory subject to the sovereignty, suzerainty, mandate or authority of another Power, even though that Power is not a party to this Convention. A carriage without such an agreed stopping place between territories subject to the sovereignty, suzerainty, mandate or authority of the same High Contracting Party is not deemed to be international for the purposes of this Convention.
3. A carriage to be performed by several successive air carriers isdeemed, for the purposes of this Convention, to be one undivided carriage, if it has been regarded by the parties as a single operation, whether it had been agreed upon under the form of a single contract or of a series of contracts, and it does not lose its international character merely because one contract or a series of contracts is to be performed entirely within a territory subject to the sovereignty, suzerainty, mandate or authority of the same High Contracting Party.
Article 2
1. This Convention applies to carriage performed by the State orby legally constituted public bodies provided it falls within the conditions laid down in Article 1.
2. This Convention does not apply to carriage performed under theterms of any international postal Convention.
| < Prev |
|---|
