
1 
This Order may be cited as the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea (United Kingdom Carriers) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st January 1999.
2 
The following instruments are hereby revoked:–
(a) the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea (United Kingdom Carriers) Order 1987;
(b) the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea (United Kingdom Carriers) (Amendment) Order 1989.
3 
In relation to any carrier whose principal place of business is in the United Kingdom, paragraph 1 of Article 7 to the Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, set out in Part I of Schedule 6 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, (including that paragraph as applied to domestic carriage by the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea (Domestic Carriage) Order 1987) shall have effect as if for the limit of 46,666 units of account there specified there were substituted a limit of 300,000 units of account.
4 
This Order does not apply in relation to any liability arising out of an occurrence which took place before the coming into force of the Order.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Glenda Jackson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
25th November 1998