The Railways Act

Maintenance of rate-books, etc., for carriage of goods

Conditions for receiving, etc., of goods

Provisions of risk rates

Forwarding note

Railway receipt

Power to require statement relating to the description of goods

Carriage of dangerous or offensive goods

Carriage of animals suffering from infectious or contagious diseases

Deviation of route

Prohibition of undue preference

Power to give direction in regard to carriage of certain goods

Maximum carrying capacity for wagons and trucks

Punitive charge for overloading a wagon

Passing of property in the goods covered by railway receipt

Section 74 not to affect right of stoppage in transit or claims for freight

Surrender of railway receipt

Power of railway administration to deliver goods or sale proceeds thereof in certain cases

Power to measure, weigh, etc

Weighment of consignment on request of the consignee or endorsee

Liability of railway administration for wrong delivery

Open delivery of consigrments

Partial delivery of consignments

Lien for freight or any other sum due

Unclaimed consignment

Disposal of perishable consignments in certain circumstances

Sales under sections 83 to 85 not to affect the right to suit

Power to make rules in respect of matters in this Chapter


CARRIAGE OF GOODS


(1) Every person entrusting any goods to a railway administration for
carriage shall execute a forwarding note in such form as may be specified by the Central Government:

Provided that no forwarding note shall be executed in the case of such goods as may be prescribed.

(2) The consignor shall be responsible for the correctness of the particulars furnished by him in the
forwarding note.

(3) The consignor shall indemnify the railway administration against any damage suffered by it by
reason of the incorrectness or incompleteness of the particulars in the forwarding note.

LAWGIST

# 64 Forwarding note