Convention on the Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims - Convention on the Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims

Japanese: 海事債権についての責任の制限に関する条約 - かいじさいけんについのせいげんにかんするじょうやく
Convention on the Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims - Convention on the Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims

…Japan’s shipowner’s liability limitation system was previously based on the consignment principle (shipowners can consign marine assets to creditors and be exempt from liability to the extent of those assets), but in 1975, the Act on Limitation of Liability of Shipowners, etc. (abbreviated as the Shipowners’ Liability Limitation Act) was enacted, incorporating the 1957 Shipowners’ Liability Limitation Convention, and the system was changed to a monetary basis. In 1976, the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims was enacted, which made changes to the 1957 Convention to reflect the current situation (raising the liability limit amount, changing the calculation basis from the gold franc to SDRs (Special Drawing Rights of the International Monetary Fund), etc.), and Japan also ratified this convention in 1982 and revised part of the previous Shipowners’ Liability Limitation Act (1982), which has continued to the present. Ship lessee [Sato Yukio] …

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Japanese:

…日本の船主責任制限制度は,従来,委付主義(船主が海産を債権者に委付して,その海産の限度で責任を免れうる)をとっていたが,1975年に,1957年の船主責任制限条約を摂取した〈船舶の所有者等の責任の制限に関する法律〉(略称,船主責任制限法)が制定され,金額主義をとることとなった。その後,76年に,1957年条約について,現状に即応するような変更(責任限度額の引上げ,その計算の基礎を金フランをやめSDR(国際通貨基金の特別引出権)にすることなど)を行う〈海事債権についての責任の制限に関する条約〉が成立したので,日本も,1982年に,この条約を批准し,先の船主責任制限法の一部を改正して(1982)現在に至っている。船舶賃借人【佐藤 幸夫】。…

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