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Carriage by Air Act (English)

Carriage by Air Act (English), 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules relating to International Carriage by Air. The rules constitute a code of the law of carriage of passengers, luggage and goods consigned, and the liabilities of the carrier and rights and liabilities of passengers and consignors. The Act is to come into force by Order in Council....

Packed parcels

Packed parcels, the name for a consignment of goods, consisting of one large parcel made up of several small ones (each bearing a different address) collected from different persons by the immediate consignor (a carrier), who unites them into one for his own profit at the expense of the railway by which they are sent, since the railway company would have been paid more for the carriage of the parcels singly than together. The charging by a railway company of a higher rate for 'packed' than other parcels has been determined frequently to be illegal, see G.W. Ry. Co. v. Sutton, (1869) LR 4 HL 226....

Margarine

Margarine. By the (English) Food and Drugs Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31), defined as any article of food, whether mixed with butter or not, which resembles butter and is not milk-blended butter.Every packet of margarine sold must be clearly marked as such (s. 6). Factories and wholesale premises must be registered (s. 8). A register of consignments must be kept (s. 9). See, generally, Part II. of the Act....

Imperial preference

Imperial preference. Preferential customs, rates and other trade advantages agreed to be conceded by the British Government of the United Kingdom on goods consigned from and grown, produced or manufactured in the British Empire, i.e. (for this purpose), the Dominions including India, terri-tories under protection and mandated territories, by Order in Council. See (English) Finance Act, 1919, s. 8, as amended by the Import Duties Act, 1932, s. 1; and see (English) the Ottawa Agreements Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 32), giving effect to the Ottawa Conference by modification of customs duties and providing further for Imperial pre-ference; see also (English) Isle of Man Customs Acts, 1933 and 1934....

Export

Export, includes the taking or sending out of goods by land, sea or air, on consignment or by way of sale, lease, hire-purchase, or under any other arrangement by whatever name called, and in the case of software, also includes transmission through any electronic media. [The Foreign Exchange Management (Export of Goods and Services Regulations, 2000, s. 2 (iv)]Means--(i) taking goods, or providing services, out of India, from a Special Economic Zone, by land, sea or air or by any other mode, whether physical or otherwise; or(ii) supplying goods, or providing services, from the Domestic Tariff Area to a Unit or Developer; or(iii) supplying goods, or providing services, from one unit to another unit or Developer, in the same or different Special Economic Zones, Special Economic Zones Act, 2005, sec. 2(m).With the grammatical variations and cognate expression, means taking out of India of a place outside India, Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regula...

Controlled delivery

Controlled delivery, means the technique of allowing illicit or suspect consignments of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, controlled substances or substances substituted for them to pass out of, or through or into the territory of India with the knowledge and under the supervision of an officer empowered in this behalf or duly authorised under s. 50A with a view to identifying the persons involved in the commission of an offence under this Act. [Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (61 of 1985), s. 2 (viib)]...

Consignee

Consignee, means the person named as consignee in a railway receipt. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 2 (8)](ii) means the person named as consignee in the multimodal transport contract. [Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 (28 of 1993), s. 2 (c)]means at least the person to whom the goods are consigned, Western Digiatal Corpn. v. British Airways Plc (CA), (2000) 3 WLR 1855....

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