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| "act_title": "The Carriers Act, 1865", | |
| "act_no": "III", | |
| "act_year": "1865", | |
| "publication_date": "19/07/2025", | |
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| "section_content": "1. This Act may be cited as theCarriers Act, 1865." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "section_content": "2. In this Act, unless be there something repugnant in the subject or context" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "section_content": "\"common carrier\" denotes a person, other than the Government, engaged in the business of transporting for hire property from place to place, by land or inland navigation, for all persons indiscriminately." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "section_content": "\"person\" includes any association or body of persons, whether incorporated or not." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "section_content": "3. No common carrier shall be liable for the loss of or damage to property delivered to him to be carried exceeding in value one hundred1[taka] and of the description contain in the Schedule to this Act, unless the person delivering such property to be carried, or some person duly authorized in that behalf, shall have expressly declared to such carrier or his agent the value and description thereof." | |
| }, | |
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| "section_content": "4. Every such carrier may require payment for the risk undertaken in carrying property exceeding in value one hundred taka and of the description aforesaid, at such rate of charge as he may fix:Provided that, to entitle such carrier to payment at a rate higher than his ordinary rate of charge, he shall have caused to be exhibited in the place where he carries on the business of receiving property to be carried, notice of the higher rate of charge required, printed or written in English and in the vernacular language of the country wherein he carries on such business." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "section_content": "5. In case of the loss or damage to property exceeding in value one hundred taka and of the description aforesaid, delivered to such carrier to be carried, when the value and description thereof shall have been declared and payment shall have been required in manner provided for by this Act, the person entitled to recover in respect of such loss or damage shall also be entitled to recover any money actually paid to such carrier in consideration of such risk as aforesaid." | |
| }, | |
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| "section_content": "6. The liability of any common carrier for the loss of or damage to any property delivered to him to be carried, not being of the description contained in the Schedule to this Act, shall not be deemed to be limited or affected by any public notice; but any such carrier, not being the owner of a railroad or tramroad constructed under the provisions of2[the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Act No. 1 of 1894)] (to provide for taking land for works of public utility to be constructed by private persons or Companies, and for regulating the construction and use of works on land so taken) may, by special contract, signed by the owner of such property so delivered as last aforesaid or by some person duly authorized in that behalf by such owner, limit his liability in respect of the same." | |
| }, | |
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| "section_content": "7. The liability of the owner of any railroad or tram road constructed under the provisions of the said3[the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Act 1 of 1894)] for loss of or damage to any property delivered to him to be carried, not being of the description contained in the Schedule to this Act, shall not be deemed to be limited or affected by any special contract; but the owner of such railroad or tram road shall be liable for the loss of or damage to property delivered to him to be carried only when such loss or damage shall have been caused by negligence or a criminal act on his part or on that of his agents or servants." | |
| }, | |
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| "section_content": "8. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, every common carrier shall be liable to the owner for loss of or damage to any property delivered to such carrier to be carried where such loss or damage shall have arisen from the criminal act of the carrier or any of his agents or servants and shall also be liable to the owner for loss or damage to any such property other than property to which the provisions of section 3 apply and in respect of which the declaration required by that section has not been made, where such loss or damage has arisen from the negligence of the carrier or any of his agents or servants." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "section_content": "9. In any suit brought against a common carrier for the loss, damage or non-delivery of goods entrusted to him for carriage, it shall not be necessary for the plaintiff to prove that such loss, damage or non-delivery was owing to the negligence or criminal act of the carrier, his servants or agents." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "section_content": "10. No suit shall be instituted against a common carrier for the loss of, or injury to, goods entrusted to him for carriage, unless notice in writing of the loss or injury has been given to him before the institution of the suit and within six months of the time when the loss or injury first came to the knowledge of the plaintiff." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "section_content": "11. The4[* * *] Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, add to the list of articles contained in the Schedule to this Act, and the Schedule shall, on the issue of any such notification, be deemed to have been amended accordingly." | |
| } | |
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| "footnote_text": "1The word “taka” was substituted, for the word “rupees” by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of theBangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973(Act No. VIII of 1973)." | |
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| "footnote_text": "2The words, comma, figures and brackets “the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Act No. 1 of 1894)” were substituted, for the words and figure “Act XXII of 1863” by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of theBangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973(Act No. VIII of 1973)." | |
| }, | |
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| "footnote_text": "3The words, comma, figures and brackets “the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Act No. 1 of 1894)” were substituted, for the words and figure “Act XXII of 1863” by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of theBangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973(Act No. VIII of 1973)." | |
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| "footnote_text": "4The word “Province” was omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of theBangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973(Act No. VIII of 1973)." | |
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| "copyright_text": "Copyright©2019, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs DivisionMinistry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs" | |
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| "head_govt_name": "Sir Cecil Beadon", | |
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