# Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992, Section 1: Shipping documents etc. to which Act applies.


(1) This Act applies to the following documents, that is to say—
(a) any bill of lading;
(b) any sea waybill; and
(c) any ship’s delivery order.
(2) References in this Act to a bill of lading—
(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
(b) subject to that, do include references to a received for shipment bill of lading.
(3) References in this Act to a sea waybill are references to any document which is not a bill of lading but—
(a) is such a receipt for goods as contains or evidences a contract for the carriage of goods by sea; and
(b) identifies the person to whom delivery of the goods is to be made by the carrier in accordance with that contract.
(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—
(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
(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.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/50/section/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-of-goods-by-sea-act-1992/section-1
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