Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 1015

The Channel Tunnel (Carriers' Liability) Order 1998

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(a) for the words "ship or aircraft" where they appear - 


(i) for the first time in subsection (1); and

(ii) in subsection (2),



there were substituted the words "through train";

(b) for the words "owners or agents of the ship or aircraft" in subsection (1) and for the words "owners or agents" in subsection (2), there were substituted the words "relevant train operator";

(c) for the words "to them or an employee of theirs" where they appear in subsection (2), there were substituted the words "to an employee or an agent of his";

(d) for the words "voyage or flight" where they appear in subsection (2), there were substituted the word "journey";

(e) the following subsection were inserted after subsection (2):

    " (2A) Nor shall any liability be incurred under subsection (1) if, under the law of the country in which the person embarked on the through train for carriage to the United Kingdom, the employees or agents of the relevant train operator could not lawfully have - 


(a) required him when embarking to produce the document or documents specified in subsection (1); and

(b) refused him carriage for failing to produce the document or documents so specified."; and



(f) the following were substituted for subsection (3):

    " (3) In this section:


"prescribed" means prescribed by an order made by the Secretary of State by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament;
"relevant train operator" means the operator of through trains who embarked the person concerned for carriage to the United Kingdom on the through train on which he arrived; and
"through train" means a train, other than a shuttle train as defined in section 1(9) of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987, which for the purposes of sections 11 and 12 of that Act is engaged on an international service, within the meaning of section 13(6) of that Act."

Transitional
     4. This Order shall not have effect in relation to the arrival of a person in the United Kingdom on a through train whose journey on that train began prior to its coming into force.


Jack Straw
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office
8th April 1998

[2] 1987 c.24, as amended by the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993 (c.23), section 12, and as extended by the Immigration (European Economic Area) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/1895), Article 19.back