Short title extent and commencement
1.
a. This act is to be called the Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993.
b. It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
c. It will be deemed to have come into force on the 16th Day of Oct’1992.
Definitions
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires : –
a. “carriers” means a person who is engaged in the business or transporting for hire goods, by road, rail, inland waterway or sea:
b. “competent authority” means any person or authority authorized by the Central Government by ‘notification in the Official Gazette to perform the functions of the competent authority under this Act.
c. “consignee” means the person named as consignee in the multimodal transport contract;
d. “consignment “ means the goods entrusted to a multimodal transport operator for multimodal transportation.
e. “consignor” means the person, named in the multimodal transport contract as consignor, by whom or on whose behalf the goods covered by such contract are entrusted to multimodal transport operator for multimodal transportation:
f. ‘delivery” means.
i. In the case of negotiable multimodal transport document, delivering of the consignment to, or placing the consignment at the disposal of, the consignee or any other person entitled to receive it;
ii.In the case on non – negotiable multimodal transport document, delivering of the consignment to ; or placing the consignment at the disposal of the consignee or nay person authorized by the consignee to accept delivery or the consignment on his behalf.
g. “endorsee” means the person in whose favour an endorsement is made, and in the case of successive endorsement, the person in whose favor the last endorsement is made;
h. “endorsement” means the signing by the consignee or the endorse after adding a direction on negotiable multimodal transport document to pass the property in the goods mentioned in such document to a specified person;
i. “goods” includes –
i. containers, pallets or similar articles of transport used to consolidate goods, and
ii. animals
j. “mode of transport” ,means carriage of goods by road, inland waterways or sea:
k. “multimodal transportation” means carriage of goods by two or more modes of transport from the place of acceptance of goods in India to a place of the delivery of goods outside India;
l. “multimodal transport contract” means a contract entered into by the consignor and the multimodal transport operator for multimodal transportation;
m. “multimodal transport operator” means any person who –
i. “negotiable multimodal transport document” means a multimodal transport document which is –
ii. made out to order or bearer, or
iii. made out to order and is transferable by endorsement; or
made out to bearer and is transferable without endorsement;
Director General of Shipping Bombay has been authorized as competent authority vide Ministry of Surface Transport (Port Wing) Notification No. GSR816 (E) dated 20-10-1992.
o. “non – negotiable multimodal transport document” means a multimodal transport document which indicates only one named consignee.
p. “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
q. “registration” means registration of multimodal transport operator under sub – section (3) of section 4.