
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Carriage
of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea (Interim Provisions) Order 1980 and
shall come into operation on 1st January 1981.
(2) In this Order 
“international carriage” has the same meaning as in Article 1.9
of the Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers
and their Luggage by Sea 1974 (hereinafter
referred to as “the Athens Convention”
), as set out in Part I of Schedule
3 to the 1979 Act.
2 
This Order applies to the following contracts for the carriage
of passengers or of passengers and their luggage by sea (being contracts for
reward) made on or after 1st January 1981, that is to say:—
(a) any contract for international carriage
which is made in the United Kingdom;
(b) any contract for international carriage
under which a place in the United Kingdom is the place of departure or destination;

(c) any contract under which the places of
departure and destination are in the area consisting of the United Kingdom,
the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and under which there is no intermediate
port of call outside that area.
3 

(1) Paragraph
(2) of this Article shall have effect only
until such time as subsections (1)
and (2) of section 14 of the 1979
Act (which provide for the Athens Convention
 to have the force of law in the United Kingdom
and for certain related provisions to have effect) come into force.
(2) Part I of
Schedule 3 to the 1979 Act (which sets out
the text of the Athens Convention)
shall have the force of law in the United Kingdom in relation to, and to matters
connected with, contracts to which this Order applies, subject to the modifications
specified in the Schedule hereto and (as so modified) shall so have effect
subject to the provisions of Part II of the said
Schedule 3 as modified by the Schedule hereto.

(3) This Order shall bind the Crown.
N.E. Leigh
Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE
Article 3
1 
In Article 2,
for paragraph 1 there shall
be substituted—“
1 
This Convention shall apply to any carriage
if:
(a) it is international carriage and the
contract of carriage is made in the United Kingdom; or
(b) it is international carriage and, under
the contract of carriage, a place in the United Kingdom is the place of departure
or destination; or
(c) under the contract of carriage, the places
of departure and destination are in the area consisting of the United Kingdom,
the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and there is no intermediate port
of call outside that area”.
2 
In Article 7, 
paragraph 2 shall be omitted.
3 
In Article 17.1
, the words “ provided that the
Court is located in a State Party to this Convention” shall
be omitted.
4 
Paragraph 10 of
Part II of Schedule 3 to the 1979 Act shall
be omitted.