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LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR MARITIME CLAIMS ACT 1989 - SECT 3

Interpretation

(1)
In this Act:

"applied provisions" means the provisions of the Convention that, under section 6, have the force of law in Australia.

"Convention" means the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 1976 (being the Convention a copy of whose English text is set out in Schedule 1), as affected by the 1996 Protocol to amend that Convention (being the Protocol a copy of whose English text is set out in Schedule 1A).

(2)
Unless the contrary intention appears, a word or expression has the same meaning in this Act as it has in the Convention.



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