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(1) The limitation of liability of a shipowner in respect of claims on any distinct occasion for loss of life or personal injury to passengers of a ship shall be an amount of 46,666 Units of Account multiplied by the number of passengers which the ship is authorized to carry according to the ship's certificate, but not exceeding 25 million Units of Account.

(2) For the purposes of this section claim for loss of life or personal injury to passengers of a ship means any claim brought by or on behalf of a person carried in that ship,

(a) under a contract of passenger carriage; or

(b) who, with the consent of the carrier, is accompanying a vehicle or live animals which are covered by a contract for the carriage of goods.