Act Number: 28

Act Name: The Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993

Year: 1993

Enactment Date: 1993-04-02

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Shipping

Department:

Section 7: Issue of multimodal transport document.
    (1) Where the consignor and the multimodal transport operator have entered into a contract for the multimodal transportation and the multimodal transport operator has taken charge of the goods, he shall, at the option of the consignor, issue a negotiable or non-negotiable multimodal transport document:
     1[Provided that the multimodal transport operator shall issue the multimodal transport document only after obtaining, and during the subsistence of a valid insurance cover.]
     (2) The multimodal transport document shall be signed by the multimodal transport operator or by a person duly authorised by him.
Notes:
1 . Ins. by s. 5, ibid. (w.e.f. 5-12-2000).
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