SHIPOWNERS’ LIABILITY.
UNIFORM LAW FOR THE EMPIRE. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Weiliogton, Last Night. The Imperial Shipping Committee have submitted their report on the limitation of shipowners’ liability under iulfs of lading. They recommend unanimously uniform legislation throughout the Empire on the lines of the existing Acts, but based more precisely on the Canadian Water Carriage Goods Act of 1919, subject to provisions in regard to exceptional cases in wnieh goods can be carried at owners’ risk, a precise definition of physical limits to shipowners’ liability, and the fixing of maximum monetary limits of liability. The report deals with the methods of deciding upon exceptions and limits, and, in this connection, proposes the establishment .of a special body common to the Empire, and indicates other matters which might be referred, to such body. The constitution of this body and other functions it might undertake are deferred for a later report.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1921, Page 5
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153SHIPOWNERS’ LIABILITY. Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1921, Page 5
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