Section 12
Responsibility of the consignor.
The Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993
About this Act
An Act to provide for the regulation of the multimodal transportation of goods, from any place in India to a place outside India, on the basis of a multimodal transport contract and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) The consignor shall be deemed to have guaranteed to the
multimodal transport operator the adequacy and accuracy, at the time the multimodal transport operator
takes charge of the goods, of the particulars referred to in clauses (a) and (b) of section 9 as furnished by
the consignor for insertion in the multimodal transport document.
(2) The consignor shall indemnify the multimodal transport operator against loss resulting from inadequacy or inaccuracy of the particulars referred to in sub-section (1).
(3) The right of the multimodal transport operator under sub-section (2) shall in no way limit his liability under the multimodal transport contract to any person other than the consignor.
(2) The consignor shall indemnify the multimodal transport operator against loss resulting from inadequacy or inaccuracy of the particulars referred to in sub-section (1).
(3) The right of the multimodal transport operator under sub-section (2) shall in no way limit his liability under the multimodal transport contract to any person other than the consignor.