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Home Bare Acts Phrase: consignmentRailways Act, 1989 Section 84
Title: Unclaimed Consignment
State: Central
Year: 1989
.....or (b) the consignment released from detention made under sub-section (1) of section 83; or (c) any remaining part of the consignment under sub-section (2) of section 83, such consignment shall be treated as unclaimed. (2) The railway administration may,-- (a) in the case of an unclaimed consignment which is perishable in nature, sell such consignment in the manner provided in clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 83; or (b) in the case of an unclaimed consignment which is not perishable in nature, cause a notice to be served upon the consignee if his name and address are known, and upon the consignor if the name and address of the consignee are not known, requiring him to remove the goods within a period of seven days from the receipt thereof and if such notice cannot be served or there is a failure to comply with the requisition in the notice, sell such consignment in the manner provided in clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 83. (3) The railway administration shall, out of the sale proceeds received under sub-section (2), retain a sum equal to the freight and other charges including expenses for the sale due to it and the surplus, if any, of such sale.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRailways Act, 1989 Section 103
Title: Extent of Monetary Liability in Respect of Any Consignment
State: Central
Year: 1989
.....calculated with reference to the weight of the consignment as may be prescribed, and where such consignment consists of an animal, the liability shall not exceed such amount as may be prescribed. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where the consignor declares the value of any consignment at the time of its entrustment to a railway administration for carriage by railway, and pays such percentage charge as may be prescribed on so much of the value of such consignment as is in excess of the liability of the railway administration as calculated or specified, as the case may be, under sub-section (1), the liability of the railway administration for the loss, destruction, damage, deterioration or non-delivery of such consignment shall not exceed the value so declared. (3) The Central Government may, from time to time, by notification, direct that such goods as may be specified in the notification shall not be accepted for carriage by railway unless the value of such goods is declared and percentage charge is paid as required under sub-section (2).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRailways Act, 1989 Section 82
Title: Partial Delivery of Consignments
State: Central
Year: 1989
(1) The consignee or endorsee shall, as soon as the consignment or part thereof is ready for delivery, take delivery of such consignment or part thereof notwithstanding that such consignment or part thereof is damaged. (2) In the case of partial delivery under sub-section (1), the railway administration shall furnish a partial delivery certificate, in such form as may be prescribed. (3) If the consignee or endorsee refuses to take delivery under sub-section (1), the consignment or part thereof shall be subject to wharfage charges beyond the time allowed for removal.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRailways Act, 1989 Section 105
Title: Right of Railway Administration to Check Contents of Certain Consignment or Luggage
State: Central
Year: 1989
Where the value has been declared under section 103 in respect of any consignment a railway administration may make it a condition of carrying such consignment that a railway servant authorised by it in this behalf has been satisfied by examination or otherwise that the consignment tendered for carriage contain the articles declared.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionMultimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 Section 14
Title: Limits of Liability when the Nature and Value of the Consignment Have Not Been Declared and Stage of Transport Where Loss or Damage Occurred is Not Known
State: Central
Year: 1993
.....in sub-section (1), if the multimodal transportation does not, according to the multimodal transport contract, include carriage of goods by sea or by inland waterways, the liability of the multimodal transport operator shall be limited to an amount not exceeding 8.33 Special Drawing Rights per kilogram of the gross weight of the goods lost or damaged. ___________________ 1. Substituted by The Multimodal Transportation Of Goods (Amendment) Act, 2000 (Act No. 44 of 2000) w.e.f. 05.12.2000. Prior to substitution it read as under : "Explanation.--For the purposes of this sub-section, where a container, pallet or similar article of transport is loaded with more than one package or unit, the packages or units enumerated in the multimodal transport document, as packed in such container, pallet or similar article of transport shall be deemed as packages or units."
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRailways 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.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRailways Act, 1989 Section 85
Title: Disposal of Perishable Consignments in Certain Circumstances
State: Central
Year: 1989
(1) Where by reason of any flood, land-slip, breach of any lines of rails, collision between trains, derailment of, or other accident to a train or any other cause, traffic on any route is interrupted and there is no likelihood of early resumption of such traffic, nor is there any other reasonable route whereby traffic of perishable consignment may be diverted to prevent, loss or deterioration of, or damage to, such consignment, the railway administration may sell them in the manner provided in clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 83. (2) The railway administration shall, out of the sale proceeds received under sub-section (1), retain a sum equal to the freight and other charges including expenses for the sale due to it and the surplus, if any, of such sale proceeds, shall be rendered to the person entitled thereto.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionMultimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 Section 15
Title: Limits of Liability when the Nature and Value of the Consignment Have Not Been Declared and Stage of Transport Where Loss or Damage Occurred is Known
State: Central
Year: 1993
Where a multimodal transport operator becomes liable for any loss of, or damage to, any consignment, the nature and value whereof have not been declared by the consignor before such consignment has been taken in charge by the multimodal transport operator and the stage of transport at which such loss or damage occurred is known, then the limit of the liability of the multimodal transport operator for such loss or damage shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of the relevant law applicable in relation to the mode of transport during the course of which the loss or damage occurred and any stipulation in the multimodal transport contract to the contrary shall be void and unenforceable. 1[Provided that the multimodal transport operator shall not be liable for any loss, damage or delay in delivery due to a cause for which the carrier is exempted from liability in accordance with the applicable law.] ___________________ 1. Inserted by The Multimodal Transportation Of Goods (Amendment) Act, 2000 (Act No. 44 of 2000) w.e.f. 05.12.2000.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRailways Act, 1989 Section 81
Title: Open Delivery of Consignments
State: Central
Year: 1989
Where the consignment arrives in a damaged condition or shows signs of having been tampered with and the consignee or the endorsee demands open -delivery, the railway administration shall give open delivery in such manner as may be prescribed.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionKarnataka Prohibition Act, 1961 Section 21
Title: Passes for Through Consignments
State: Karnataka
Year: 1961
The through transport of any consignment of any intoxicant, hemp, mhowra flowers or molasses by a railway administration or by any steamer, ferry, road transport or air service shall be under such passes and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by rules.
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