{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-of-goods-by-sea-act-1992/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-of-goods-by-sea-act-1992/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/50",
  "legislation_title": "Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-of-goods-by-sea-act-1992",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Shipping documents etc. to which Act applies.",
  "text": "(1) This Act applies to the following documents, that is to say—\n(a) any bill of lading;\n(b) any sea waybill; and\n(c) any ship’s delivery order.\n(2) References in this Act to a bill of lading—\n(a) do not include references to a document which is incapable of transfer either by indorsement or, as a bearer bill, by delivery without indorsement; but\n(b) subject to that, do include references to a received for shipment bill of lading.\n(3) References in this Act to a sea waybill are references to any document which is not a bill of lading but—\n(a) is such a receipt for goods as contains or evidences a contract for the carriage of goods by sea; and\n(b) identifies the person to whom delivery of the goods is to be made by the carrier in accordance with that contract.\n(4) References in this Act to a ship’s delivery order are references to any document which is neither a bill of lading nor a sea waybill but contains an undertaking which—\n(a) is given under or for the purposes of a contract for the carriage by sea of the goods to which the document relates, or of goods which include those goods; and\n(b) is an undertaking by the carrier to a person identified in the document to deliver the goods to which the document relates to that person.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1(5) omitted (20.9.2023) by virtue of Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 (c. 38), ss. 7(2), 8(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 1(6) omitted (20.9.2023) by virtue of Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 (c. 38), ss. 7(2), 8(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/50/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:36.547855+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}