(1) This Ordinance may be called the Multimodal Transportation of Goods Ordinance, 1992.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
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(5) It shall come into force at once.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "carrier" means a person who is engaged in the business of transporting for hire goods, by road, rail, inland waterways or sea;
(b) "competent authority" means any person or authority authorised by the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, to perform the functions of the competent authority under this Ordinance;
(c) "consignee" means the person named as consignee in the multimodai transport contract;
(d) "consignment" means the goods entrusted to a multimodal transport operator for multimodal transportation;
O) "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;
(/) "delivery" means,— (0 in the case of negotiable mmltimoda] transport document!, delivering of the consignment to, or placing consignment at the disposal of, the consignee or any other person entitled to receive it;
(H) in the case of non-negotiable multimodal transport document, delivering of the consignment to, or placing consignment at the disposal of the consignee or any parson authorised by the consignee to accept delivery of the consignment on his behalf;
(#) "endorsee" means the person in whose favour an endorsement is made, and in the case of successive endorsements, the person in whose favour the last endorsement is made;
(h) "endorsement" means the signing by the consignee or the endorsee after adding a direction on a negotiable multimodal transport document to pass the property in the goods mentioned in such document to a specified person;
(i) "goods" includes—- (/) containers, pallets, or similar articles of transport used to consolidate goods; and (7/) animals;
(j) "mode of transport" means carriage of goods by road, rail, Inland waterways or aea;
(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;
(/) "multimodal transport contract" moans a contract entered into by the consignor and the multimodal transport operator for multimodal transportation;
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(m) ''multimodal transport operator" means any person who—
(i) concludes a multimodal transport contract on his ov behalf or through another person acting on his behalf;
07) acts as principal, and not as an agent cither of t] consignor or of the carrier participating in the multimodal tran portation, and who assumes responsibility for the performance • the said contract; and (Hi) is registered under sub-section (7) of section 4;
(n) "negotiable multjmodal transport document" means a multinu dal transport document) which is— (/) made out to order or to bearer; or
(it) made out to order and is transferable by endorsement; o
(ui) made out to bearer and is transferable without endorse ment;
(o) "non-negotiable multimodal transport document" means i multimodal transport document which indicates only one namet consignee;
(p) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance;
(q) ''registration." means registration of multimodal transport operatoi under sub-section (?) of section 4.
CHAPITER II REGULATION OF MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION
3. No person shall carry on or commence the business of multimodal transportation unless he is registered under this Ordinance:
Provided that a person carrying on the business of multimodal transportation immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance, may continue to do so for a period of three montihs from such commencement; and if he has made an application for registration within the said period, till the disposal df such application.