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Power of Government to certify contracting parties.
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6.—(1) The Government may, by order notified in Iris Oifigiúil, certify—
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(a) who are the contracting parties to any of the Carriage by Air Conventions, and
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(b) in respect of what countries or territories they are respectively parties, and
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(c) to what extent they have availed themselves of the Additional Protocols and Article 57(a) of the Montreal Convention.
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(2) The Government may, by order notified in Iris Oifigiúil, certify any revision of the limits of liability established under the Montreal Convention.
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(3) The provisions of the Carriage by Air Conventions specified in subsection (4) do not have the effect of extending references in the applicable provisions to the territory of a contracting party (except those that refer to the territory of a state, whether a contracting party or not) so as to include a territory in respect of which the contracting party is not a party.
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(4) The following provisions are specified for the purposes of subsection (3):
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(a) Article 40 of the Warsaw Convention;
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(b) Article 40A of that Convention as amended;
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(c) Paragraph 1 of Article 56 of the Montreal Convention.
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(5) An order made under this section may include such transitional and consequential provisions as appear to the Government to be necessary.
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