Hong Kong Ordinances

BILLS OF LADING AND ANALOGOUS SHIPPING DOCUMENTS ORDINANCE - SECT 3

Shipping documents etc. to which Ordinance applies

(1) This Ordinance applies to the following documents-

   (a)  bills of lading;

   (b)  sea waybills; and

   (c)  ship's delivery orders.

(2) References in this Ordinance to a bill of lading do not include references
to a document which is incapable of transfer either by endorsement or, as a
bearer bill, by delivery without endorsement; but subject to that, do include
references to a received for shipment bill of  lading.

(3) References in this Ordinance to a sea waybill are references to any
document which is not a bill of lading but-

   (a)  is such a receipt for goods as contains or evidences a contract for
        the carriage of goods by sea; and

   (b)  identifies the person to whom delivery of the goods is to be made by
        the carrier in accordance with that contract.

(4) References in this Ordinance to a ship's delivery order are references to
a document which is neither a bill of lading nor a sea  waybill but which
contains an undertaking-

   (a)  that is given under or for the purposes of a contract for the carriage
        by sea of the goods to which the document relates, or of goods which
        include those goods; and

   (b)  by the carrier to a person identified in the document that he will
        deliver the goods to which the document relates to that person.
        (Enacted 1993)