Legal glossary

“consignment”

Defined in 2 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
  1. The Carriage by Road Act, 2007 · s. 2

    (c) "consignment" means documents, goods or articles entrusted by the consignor to the common carrier for carriage, the description or details of which are given in the goods forwarding note;
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  2. The Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 · s. 2

    (d) "consignment" means the goods entrusted to a multimodal transport operator for multimodal transportation;
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