CIVIL AVIATION (CARRIERS' LIABILITY) ACT 1961 - SECT 6
CIVIL AVIATION (CARRIERS' LIABILITY) ACT 1961 - SECT 6
6 . Application of certain provisions of the Commonwealth Act 3
The provisions of
Parts IV and IVA of the Commonwealth Act (other than sections 27, 40, 41 and
41J(8)) and the provisions of the Commonwealth Regulations apply to and in
relation to carriage to which this Act applies and matters connected with the
carriage, as if those provisions were incorporated in this Act and as if, in
those provisions as so incorporated —
(a)
general references to Parts IV and IVA of the Commonwealth Act were references
to this Act;
(b) a
reference in one of those provisions to another of those provisions were a
reference to that other provision as applying by virtue of this Act;
(c) the
reference in section 29(5) of the Commonwealth Act to carriage referred to in
section 27(4) of the Commonwealth Act were a reference to the carriage of a
passenger where —
(i)
the carriage of the passenger between 2 places was to be
performed by 2 or more carriers in successive stages;
(ii)
the carriage has been regarded by the parties as a single
operation, whether it has been agreed upon by a single contract or by 2 or
more contracts; and
(iii)
this Act would have applied to that carriage if it had
been performed by a single carrier under a single contract;
and
(d) the
references in the Commonwealth Act to the regulations relating to certain
matters were references to the provisions of the Commonwealth regulations
relating to those matters as applying by virtue of this Act.
[Section 6 amended: No. 80 of 1996 s. 6.]