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Carriage by Road Act 2007 Section 15

Title: Right of Common Carrier in Case of Consignees Default

State: Central

Year: 2007

.....period as may be mutually agreed to by and between the common carrier and the consignor. (2) In the case of an unclaimed consignment under sub-section (1), the common carrier may,- (a) if such consignment is perishable in nature, have the right to sell the consignment; or (b) if such consignment is not perishable in nature, cause a notice to be served upon the consignee or upon the consignor if the consignee is not available, requiring him to remove the goods within a period of fifteen days from the date of receipt of the notice and in case of failure to comply with the notice, the common carrier shall have the right to sell such consignment without any further notice to the consignee or the consignor, as the case may be. (3) The common carrier shall, out of the sale proceeds received under sub-section (2), retain a sum equal to the freight, storage and other charges due including expenses incurred for the sale, and the surplus, if any, from such sale proceeds shall be returned to the consignee or the consignor, as the case may be. (4) Unless otherwise agreed upon between the common carrier and consignor, the common carrier shall be entitled to detain or dispose off.....

Railways Act, 1989 Section 79

Title: Weighment of Consignment on Request of the Consignee or Endorsee

State: Central

Year: 1989

A railway administration may, on the request made by the consignee or endorsee, allow weighment of the consignment subject to such conditions and on payment of such charges as may be prescribed and the demurrage charges if any: Provided that except in cases where a railway servant authorised in this behalf considers it necessary so to do, no weighment shall be allowed of goods booked at owner's risk rate or goods which are perishable and are likely to lose weight in transit: Provided further that no request for weighment of consignment in wagon-load or train-load shall be allowed if the weighment is not feasible due to congestion in the yard or such other circumstances as may be prescribed.

Indian Bills of Lading Act, 1856 Section 1

Title: Rights Under Bills of Lading to Vest in Consignee or Endorsee

State: Central

Year: 1856

Every consignee of goods named in a bill of lading and every endorsee of a bill of lading to whom the property in the goods therein mentioned shall pass, upon or by reason of such consignment or endorsement shall have transferred to and vested in him all rights of suit, and be subject to the same liabilities in respect of such goods as if the contract contained in the bill of lading had been made with himself.

Indian Bills of Lading Act, 1856 Section 3

Title: Bill of Lading in Hands of Consignee, Etc. Conclusive Evidence of the Shipment as Against Master Etc

State: Central

Year: 1856

Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel, shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same, notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped, unless such holder of the bill of lading shall have had actual notice at the time of receiving the same that the goods had not in fact been laden on board: PROVIDED that the master or other person so signing may exonerate himself, in respect of such misrepresentation, by showing that it was caused without any default on his part, and wholly by the fraud of the shipper or of the holder, or some person under whom the holder claims.

Carriage by Air Act, 1972 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1972

.....relating to the weight, dimensions and packing of the goods, as well as those relating to the number of packages, are prima facie evidence of the facts stated; those relating to the quantity, volume and condition of the goods do not constitute evidence against the carrier except so far as they both have been, and are stated in the air consignment note to have been, checked by him in the presence of the consignor, or relate to the apparent condition of the goods. 12 12 (1) Subject to his liability to carry out all his obligations under the contract of carriage, the consignor has the right to dispose of the goods by withdrawing them at the aerodrome of departure or destination, or by stopping them in the course of the journey on any landing or, by calling for them to be delivered at the place of destination or in the course of the journey to a person other than the consignee named in the air consignment note or by requiring them to be returned to the aerodrome of departure. He must not exercise the right of disposition in such a way as to prejudice the carrier or other consignors and he must repay any expenses occasioned by the exercise of this right. (2) If it is impossible.....

Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1993

.....OF THE MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT DOCUMENT Save as provided in section 10, (a) the multimodal transport document shall be prima facie evidence of the fact that the multimodal transport operator has taken charge of the goods as described in the document; and (b) no proof to the contrary by the multimodal transport operator shall be admissible if the multimodal transport document is issued in negotiable form and has been transmitted to the consignee or transferred by the consignee to a third party, if the consignee or the third party has acted in good faith relying on the description of the goods in the document. SECTION 12: RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CONSIGNOR (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 9as 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.....

Railways Act, 1989 Chapter 9

Title: Carriage of Goods

State: Central

Year: 1989

.....with. (6) Nothing in this section shall be construed to derogate from the provisions of the Indian Explosives Act, 1884 (4 of 1884), or any rule or order made under that Act, and nothing in sub-sections (4) and (5) shall be construed to apply to any goods entrusted for carriage by order or on behalf of the Government or to any goods which a soldier, sailor, airman or any other officer of the armed forces of the Union or a police officer or a member of the Territorial Army or of the National Cadet Corps may take with him on a railway in the course of his employment or duty as such. Section 68 - Carriage of animals suffering from infectious or contagious diseases A railway administration shall not be bound to carry any animal suffering from such infectious or contagious disease as may be prescribed. Section 69 - Deviation of route Where due to any cause beyond the control of a railway administration or due to congestion in the yard or any other operational reasons, goods are carried over a route other than the route by which such goods are booked, the railway administration shall not be deemed to have committed a breach of the contract of carriage by reason only of.....

Delhi Sales Tax Act, 1975 Complete Act

State: Delhi

Year: 1975

..... (b) "Appellate Tribunal" means the Appellate Tribunal constituted under Section 13; (c) "business" includes (i) any trade, commerce or manufacture or any adventure or concern in the nature of trade, commerce or manufacture whether or not such trade, commerce, manufacture, adventure or concern is carried on with a motive to make gain or profit and whether or not any gainor profit accrues from such trade, commerce, manufacture, adventure or concern; and (ii) any transaction in connection with or incidental or ancillary to, such trade, commerce, manufacture, adventure or concern; (d) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Sales Tax appointed under subsection (1) of Section 9; (e) "dealer" means any person who carries on business of selling goods in Delhi and includes (i) the Central Government or a State Government carrying on such business; (ii) an incorporated society (including a co-operative society), club or association which sells or supplies goods, whether or not in the course of business, to its members cash or for deferred payment or for commission, remuneration or other valuable construction; (iii) a manager, factor, broker, commission agent del.....

Punjab Vat Act, 2005 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 2005

.....electronic medium; (b) "appointed day" means the date on which this Act comes into force; (c) "business" includes - (i) any trade, commerce, manufacture, adventure or concern whether or not such trade, commerce, manufacture, adventure or concern is carried on with a motive to make profit and whether or not any profit accrues there from; and (ii) any transaction in connection with or ancillary or incidental to such trade, commerce, manufacture, adventure or concern; (d) "capital goods" means any plant, machinery or equipment including equipment for pollution control, quality control, laboratory and cold storage, used in manufacturing, processing and packing of taxable goods for sale; (e) "carrier of goods" includes a person or a transport company or a booking agency, who transports, receives or delivers goods; (f) "casual trader" means a person other than a taxable person or registered person, who whether as principal, agent or in any other capacity, undertakes occasional transactions in the nature of business involving purchase, sale, supply or distribution of goods or conducting any exhibition-cum-sale in the State, whether for cash, deferred payment, commission,.....

Central Excise Tariff (Amendment) Act, 2004 Chapter LXXXV

Title: Electrical Machinery and Equipment and Parts Thereof; Sound Recorders and Reproducers, Television Image and Sound Recorders and Reproducers, and Parts and Accessories of Such Articles

State: Central

Year: 2004

.....or other reasons, nor capable of being recharged. 8. For the purposes of heading 8524 "recording" of sound or other phenomena shall amount to manufacture. SUB-HEADING NOTES 1. Sub-headings 8519 92 and 8527 12 cover only cassette-players with built-in amplifier, without built-in loudspeaker, capable of operating without an external source of electric power and the dimensions of which do not exceed 170 mm x 100 mm x 45 mm. 2. For the purposes of sub-heading 8542 10, the term ' "smart" cards' means cards which have embedded in them an electronic integrated circuit (microprocessor) of any type in the form of a chip and which may or may not have a magnetic stripe. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE For the purposes of heading 8524, "Information Technology Software" means any representation of instructions, data, sound or image, including source code and object code, recorded in a machine readable form, and capable of being manipulated or providing interactivity to a user, by means of an automatic data processing machine. Tariff Item Description of goods Unit Rate of duty (1) (2) (3) (4) 8501 ELECTRIC MOTORS AND.....