Carriage of Goods Act 1979

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The Carriage of Goods Act 1979 [1]
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New Zealand Parliament
Royal assent 14 November 1979
Status: Repealed

The Carriage of Goods Act 1979 (No 43) was an Act of the New Zealand Parliament. [2] [3] It was repealed by section 345(1)(a) of the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017.

The Carriage of Goods Act 1979 replaced the Carriers Act 1948. [4]

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References

  1. The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 1(1) of this Act.
  2. Yiannopoulos, A. Athanassios N. (1 January 1995). Ocean Bills of Lading: Traditional Forms, Substitutes, and Edi Systems. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. pp. 240–257. ISBN   978-0-7923-3361-6.
  3. Riffel, Christian; Burke, Róisín (24 June 2019). New Zealand Yearbook of International Law: Volume 15, 2017. BRILL. p. 261. ISBN   978-90-04-38793-5.
  4. "Carriage of Goods Act 1979" (1980) Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 383 Google