Appendix D: Guadalajara Supplementary Convention 1961

• Author: John D. Holding, Q.C., MRAeS
• Pages: 131-136

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Appendix D: Guadalajara Supplementary

Convention 1961

CONVENTION SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE WARSAW CONVENTION FOR

THE UNIFICATION OF CERTAIN RULES RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL

CARRIAGE BY AIR PERFORMED BY A PERSON OTHER THAN THE

CONTRACTING CARRIER, SIGNED IN GUADALAJARA, ON 18 SEPTEMBER

1961 (GUADALAJARA CONVENTION 1961)

THE STATES SIGNATORY TO THE PRESENT CONVENTION

NOTING that the Warsaw Convention does not contain par ticular rules

relating to internat ional carr iage by air performed by a pe rson who is not a

party to the ag reement for carriage

CONSIDERING that it is therefore desirable to formulate rules to apply

in such circumst ances

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article I

In this Convention:

(a) “Warsaw Convention” means the Convention for the Unif‌ication of

Certain Rules Relat ing to International Car riage by Air signed at

Warsaw on 12 October 1929, or the Warsaw Convention as amended

at The Hague, 1955, according to whether the carriage under the

agreement referred to in pa ragraph (b) is governed by the one or by

the other;

(b) “contracting carrier” means a person who as a principal makes an

agreement for car riage governed by the Warsaw Convention with a