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Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....in 1867, 1882andagain in 1893and 1896 but all these attempts failed owing to legal and constitutional difficulties.Two of the principal contributory factors were the then limited powers of the Indian Legislature to legislate regarding shipping and the fact that part of the British Statute law on the subject, including parts of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, which is the principal United-Kingdom enactment on the subject, applied to Indian and any Indian enactment had to be in legal harmony with that law. A fresh attempt was made in 1921-22 to codify the Indian law on merchant shipping by the Statute Law Revision Committee, which decided that only consolidation, and not revision should be attempted immediately. The result was the Indian Merchant Shipping Act, 1923, which is now on the Statute Book and which consolidated some 21 existing Indian Acts on the subject. This Act has also been amended from time to time, the two major amendments being those made in 1933 and in 1953 so as to take power to implement the provisions of the international conventions with respect to load lines, 1930, and with respect to safety of life at sea, 1948, respectively, which have been ratified by.....

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.....

Bengal Moneylenders Act, 1940 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1940

.....being disqualified for holding a licence, applies for or obtains a licence during the pendency of such disqualification, without disclosing the fact thereof, shall be punishable, on conviction, with imprisonment which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or with both, and any licence so obtained shall not be deemed to be an effective licence. (2) Whoever obliterates or causes to be obliterated or attempts to obliterate an endorsement entered on a licence under this Act or abets such obliteration or attempt shall be punishable, on conviction, with imprisonment which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees- or with both. CHAPTER 4 Regulation of accounts of Money-lenders Section 24 Duty of money-lender to keep accounts (1) Every money-lender shall keep and maintain at least a cash book, a ledger and a receipt book in such form or forms as may be prescribed, and the same shall be written in Bengali or English in the regular course of business. (2) Every money-lender shall (a) deliver to the borrower at the time a loan is advanced a statement in Bengali or English as the borrower may desire,.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 42

Title: Transfer of Ships or Shares

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....paid in accordance with the provisions of this Act; (b) the owner of the ship has given notice of such transfer or acquisition of the ship to the Director General.] (3) Subject to the other provisions contained in this section, an Indian ship or a share therein shall be transferred only by an instrument in writing, (4) The instrument shall contain such description of the ship as is contained in the surveyor's certificate or some other description sufficient to identify the ship to the satisfaction of the registrar and shall be in the prescribed form or as near thereto as circumstances permit and shall be executed by the transferor in the presence of and be attested by at least two witnesses. ___________________________ 1. Inserted by Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act (68 of 1993), Section 3 (w.r.e.f. 27-10-93).

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Part XV

Title: Sailing Vessels

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....be re-issued or issued until the vessel is, in the opinion of such authority, fit to ply or proceed to sea or the defect is rectified to the satisfaction of such authority. Section 423 - Registry of alterations When a sailing vessel is so altered as not to correspond with the particulars relating to her entered in the certificate of registry, the owner of such vessel shall make a report of such alteration to the registrar of the port where the vessel is registered, and the registrar shall either cause the alteration to be registered, or direct that the vessel be registered anew, in accordance with such rules as may be made in this behalf. Section 424 - Transfer of registry The registry of a sailing vessel may be transferred from one port to another in India on the application of the owner or tindal of the vessel in accordance with such rules as may be made in this behalf. Section 425 - Closure of registry If a sailing vessel is lost, destroyed or rendered permanently unfit for service, the owner of such vessel shall with the least practicable delay report the fact to the registrar of the port where the vessel is registered and also forward to him along with the.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 426

Title: Restriction on Transfer of Sailing Vessel

State: Central

Year: 1958

No person shall transfer or acquire any. sailing vessel registered under this Part or any interest therein without the previous approval ofthe Central Government; and any transaction effected in contravention of this section shall bevoid and unenforceable.

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 435Q

Title: Restriction on Transport of Indian Fishing Boats

State: Central

Year: 1958

No person shall transfer or acquire any Indian fishing boat registered under this Part or any interest therein without the previous approval of the Central Government; and any transaction effected in contravention of this section shall be void and unenforceable.

Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 Chapter 3

Title: Responsibilities and Liabilities of the Multimodal Transport Operator

State: Central

Year: 1993

.....greater than the liability for total loss of goods for which a person will be entitled to make a claim against him under the provisions of this Act. Section 20 - Notice of loss of or damage to goods (1) The delivery of the consignment to the consignee by the multimodal transport operator shall be treated as prima facie evidence of delivery of the goods as described in the multimodal transport document unless notice of the general nature of loss of, or damage to, the goods is given, in writing, by the consignee to the multimodal transport operator at the time of handing over of the goods to the consignee. (2) Where the loss or damage is not apparent, the provisions of sub-section (1) shall apply unless notice in writing is given by the consignee of the loss of, or damage to, the goods within six consecutive days after the day when the goods were handed over to the consignee. 1[Period of responsibility "20A. The responsibility of the multimodal transport operator for the goods under this Act shall cover the period from the time he has taken the goods in his charge to the time of their delivery.] ___________________ 1. Inserted by The Multimodal Transportation Of.....

Multimodal 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.

Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 Chapter 5

Title: Miscellaneous

State: Central

Year: 1993

.....therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force or in any instrument having effect by virtue of any law other than this Act. Section 30 - Power to make rules (1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the provisions of this Act. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:-- (a) the forms in which applications shall be made under section 4; (b) the period within which appeal shall be preferred under sub-section (1) of section 6; (c) the form in which an appeal shall be preferred under section 6 and the amount of fee payable in respect of such appeal; (d) dangerous goods for the purpose of section 21; (e) any other matter which is to be, or may be, prescribed. (3) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately.....