Customary Law Amendment (Amendment) (Jersey) Law 2001

Jersey Law 30/2001

 

CUSTOMARY LAW AMENDMENT (AMENDMENT) (JERSEY) LAW 2001

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A LAW     to further amend the Customary Law Amendment (Jersey) Law 1948; sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the

 

31st day of OCTOBER 2001

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(Registered on the 23rd day of November 2001)

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STATES OF JERSEY

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The 24th day of July 2001

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                THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law -

 

ARTICLE 1

 

                In this Law, “principal Law” means the Customary Law Amendment (Jersey) Law 1948, as amended.[1]

 

ARTICLE 2

 

                (1)     For Article 1(2)(a) of the principal Law1 there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph -

 

          “(a)   shall not include -

 

                   (i)      any exemplary damages,

 

                   (ii)     any damages for loss of income in respect of any period after that person’s death;”.

 

                (2)     The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall not have effect in relation to any cause of action in respect of a death occurring before the commencement of this Law.

 

ARTICLE 3

 

                In Article 1(5) of the principal Law[2] -

 

                (a)     for the words beginning “the ‘Lois (1886 à 1948)” and ending “Carriage by Air (Jersey) Order, 1935,” there shall be substituted the words “the Fatal Accidents (Jersey) Law 1962,[3] as amended,[4] and the Carriage by Air Act 1961 and the Carriage by Air (Supplementary Provisions) Act 1962, as extended to the Island by the Carriage By Air (Jersey) Order 1967[5]”;

 

                (b)     for the words “the said Laws and under the said Order” there shall be substituted the words “the said Law and under the said Acts”.

 

ARTICLE 4

 

                This Law may be cited as the Customary Law Amendment (Amendment) (Jersey) Law 2001 and shall come into force on the seventh day following its registration.

 

                                                                                      M.N. DE LA HAYE

 

Deputy Greffier of the States.



[1] Tome VII, page 477.

[2] Tome VII, page 478.

[3] Volume 1961-1962, page 591.

[4] Volume 1996-1997, page 601.

[5] Volume 1966-1967, page 435.


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