Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1992 c. 50
any bill of lading;any sea waybill; andany ship’s delivery order.do not include references to a document which is incapable of transfer either by indorsement or, as a bearer bill, by delivery without indorsement; butsubject to that, do include references to a received for shipment bill of lading.is such a receipt for goods as contains or evidences a contract for the carriage of goods by sea; andidentifies the person to whom delivery of the goods is to be made by the carrier in accordance with that contract.is given under or for the purposes of a contract for the carriage by sea of the goods to which the document relates, or of goods which include those goods; andis an undertaking by the carrier to a person identified in the document to deliver the goods to which the document relates to that person.the issue of a document to which this Act applies;the indorsement, delivery or other transfer of such a document; orthe doing of anything else in relation to such a document.make such modifications of the following provisions of this Act as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in connection with the application of this Act to any case mentioned in that subsection; andcontain supplemental, incidental, consequential and transitional provision;the lawful holder of a bill of lading;the person who (without being an original party to the contract of carriage) is the person to whom delivery of the goods to which a sea waybill relates is to be made by the carrier in accordance with that contract; orthe person to whom delivery of the goods to which a ship’s delivery order relates is to be made in accordance with the undertaking contained in the order,by virtue of a transaction effected in pursuance of any contractual or other arrangements made before the time when such a right to possession ceased to attach to possession of the bill; oras a result of the rejection to that person by another person of goods or documents delivered to the other person in pursuance of any such arrangements.shall be so vested subject to the terms of the order; andwhere the goods to which the order relates form a part only of the goods to which the contract of carriage relates, shall be confined to rights in respect of the goods to which the order relates.a person with any interest or right in or in relation to goods to which the document relates sustains loss or damage in consequence of a breach of the contract of carriage; butsubsection (1) above operates in relation to that document so that rights of suit in respect of that breach are vested in another person,

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