Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02639:schedule:4:p9
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02639
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 4 (pt 9/36)
Character Range: 157871–160613

may approve the container, notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter II. Where approval is granted, such approval shall be notified to the owner in writing, and this notification shall entitle the owner to affix the Safety Approval Plate after an examination of the container concerned has been carried out in accordance with Regulation 2. The examination of the container concerned and the affixing of the Safety Approval Plate shall be accomplished not later than 1 January 1985."

SCHEDULE 6 Section 186

NEW SCHEDULE 6a TO THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912

SCHEDULE 6a Sub-section 330 (1)

PROTOCOL
AMENDING THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION RELATING TO THE LIMITATION OF THE LIABILITY OF OWNERS OF SEA-GOING SHIPS DATED 10 OCTOBER 1957

THE CONTRACTING PARTIES TO THE PRESENT PROTOCOL,
BEING PARTIES to the International Convention relating to the limitation of the liability of owners of sea-going ships, done at Brussels on 10th October 1957,
HAVE AGREED as follows:
Article I
For the purpose of this Protocol, <<Convention>> means the International Convention relating to the limitation of the liability of owners of sea-going ships and its Protocol of signature, done at Brussels on 10th October 1957.
Article II
(1) Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Convention is replaced by the following:
<<(1) The amounts to which the owner of a ship may limit his liability under Article 1 shall be:
     (a) where the occurrence has only given rise to property claims an aggregate amount of 66.67 units of account for each ton of the ship's tonnage;
     (b) where the occurrence has only given rise to personal claims an aggregate amount of 206.67 units of account for each ton of the ship's tonnage;
     (c) where the occurrence has given rise both to personal claims and property claims an aggregate amount of 206.67 units of account for each ton of the ship's tonnage, of which a first portion amounting to 140 units of account for each ton of the ship's tonnage shall be exclusively appropriated to the payment of personal claims and of which a second portion amounting to 66.67 units of account for each ton of the ship's tonnage shall be
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      appropriated to the payment of property claims. Provided however that in cases where the first portion is insufficient to pay the personal claims in full, the unpaid balance of such claims shall rank rateably with the property claims for payment against the second portion of the fund. >>
(2) Article 3, paragraph (6) of the Convention is replaced by the following:
      << (6) The unit of account mentioned in paragraph (1) of this Article is the Special Drawing Right as defined by the International Monetary Fund. The amounts mentioned in that paragraph shall be converted into the