Section 4. Accordingly, it is proposed to repeal and re-enact the said Act with a new legislation and for the s

4. Accordingly, it is proposed to repeal and re-enact the said Act with a new legislation and for the said purpose, to introduce the Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill, 2024 in Parliament. The salient features of the modifications proposed in the Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill, 2024, inter alia, are-- (a) to substitute the term "Rules" with "applicable rules", which provides for Hague Rules, as amended by the Visby Rules, with modifications; (b) to empower the Central Government to amend the Schedule by notification in the Official Gazette and to provide for laying of every such notification before Parliament; (c) to empower the Central Government to issue such directions as it may deem fit to carry out all or any of the provisions of the Act; (d) to omit the transitional provision relating to non-applicability of the Rules under the said Act, proposed to be repealed, to contract for the carriage of goods by sea before the first day of January, 1926; (e) to provide for necessary repeal and savings.