Act Number: 69

Act Name: The Carriage by Air Act, 1972

Year: 1972

Enactment Date: 1972-12-19

Long Title: An Act to give effect to the Convention for the unification of certain rules relating to international carriage by air signed at Warsaw on the 12th day of October, 1929 and to the said Convention as amended by the Hague Protocol on the 28th day of September, 1955 and also to the Montreal Convention signed on the 28th day of May, 1999 and to make provision for applying the rules contained in the said Convention in its original form and in the amended form (subject to exceptions, adaptations and modifications) to non-international carriage by air and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Civil Aviation

Department:

Section 8A: Power to make rules.
    1[8A. Power to make rules.-- (1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
     (2) Every rule made and every notification issued under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made or issued, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or the notification or both Houses agree that the rule or notification should not be made or issued, the rule or notification shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or notification.
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 12 of 2016, s. 3 (w.e.f. 21-3-2016).
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