[Act No. 19 of 2025] 

[ 08th August, 2025 ]

PREAMBLE

An Act to provide for the responsibilities, liabilities, rights and immunities attached to carriers with respect to the carriage of goods by sea and for matters connected therewith or related thereto.

WHEREAS the delegates at the International Conference on Maritime Law held at Brussels in October, 1922, agreed unanimously to recommend their respective Governments to adopt as the basis of a Convention a draft Convention for the unification of certain rules relating to bills of lading;

AND WHEREAS at a meeting held at Brussels in October, 1923, the rules contained in the said draft Convention were amended by the Committee appointed by the said Conference;

AND WHEREAS the said rules were amended by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 23rd February,