Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992

1 Shipping documents etc. to which Act applies.U.K.

(1)This Act applies to the following documents, that is to say—

(a)any bill of lading;

(b)any sea waybill; and

(c)any ship’s delivery order.

(2)References in this Act to a bill of lading—

(a)do not include references to a document which is incapable of transfer either by indorsement or, as a bearer bill, by delivery without indorsement; but

(b)subject to that, do include references to a received for shipment bill of lading.

(3)References in this Act to a sea waybill are references to any document which is not a bill of lading but—

(a)is such a receipt for goods as contains or evidences a contract for the carriage of goods by sea; and

(b)identifies the person to whom delivery of the goods is to be made by the carrier in accordance with that contract.

(4)References in this Act to a ship’s delivery order are references to any document which is neither a bill of lading nor a sea waybill but contains an undertaking which—

(a)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; and

(b)is an undertaking by the carrier to a person identified in the document to deliver the goods to which the document relates to that person.

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