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The air law relating to the carriage of goods has reached a considerable measure of international uniformity. The U.K. legislation applicable to such carriage consists of the Carriageby Air Act 1932, 1961and 1962. These Acts gave effect to a Convention for the Unification of certain rules relating to International Carriage by Ad which was signed in Warsaw in 1929, and the 1955Hague Protocol amendment. The Warsaw Convention regulated the legal liabilities and relationships between carriers by air on the one hand, and passengers as well as cargo consignors and consignees on the other. This was followed by a further convention supplementing,876as well as a number of Protocols amending,877the Warsaw Convention and its Hague ~ r o t o c o l(referred* ~ ~ to as the amended Warsaw Convention). However, the most recent, and perhaps most convention is the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, signed at Montreal on 28thMay 1999. In so far as the U.K. is concerned, the amended Warsaw Convention with the Montreal Protocol No.4 was the law applying to international carriage of goods by air until 27 June 2004. Since then, the Montreal Convention 1999 is 976 Convention Supplementary to the Warsaw Convention, for unification of certain rules relating to intemational carriage by Air performed by a person other than the contracting carrier, Guadalajara, September 18, 1961. 877 Protocol to amend the Warsaw Convention, Guatemala City, March 8, 1961:This dealt with carriage of passengers and their baggage but not cargo or mail. The Montreal Additional Protocols 1975:These three Protocols replaced the old unit of liability with Special Drawing Rights (S.D.R.). They applied the