Bills of Lading Act, 2025
Bare Act · 2025
An Act to make provisions for the transfer of rights of suit and all liabilities to the consignee named in a bill of lading and every endorsee of a bill of lading, to whom the property in the goods mentioned in the bill of lading shall pass, upon or by reason of a consignment or an endorsement, and for matters connected therewith or related thereto.
- Act number
- 18 of 2025
- Enacted
- 17 June 2025
- Contents
- 6 sections
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Contents
- Section 1 – Short title and commencement
- Section 2 – Rights under bills of lading to vest in consignee or endorsee
- Section 3 – Right of stoppage in transit or claims for freight not to be affected
- Section 4 – Bill of lading in hands of consignee, etc., conclusive evidence of shipment as against master, etc
- Section 5 – Power of Central Government to give directions
- Section 6 – Repeal and savings (preview)