19. Liability to be determined in accordance with other conventions or law

Terms defined in s 2

• goods

  goods

  Defined · s 2

  “goods” means any property (including any container, pallet or similar article of transport or packaging not supplied by a multimodal transport operator), whether such property is or is to be carried on or under the deck of a conveyance;

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• international multimodal transport

  international multimodal transport

  Defined · s 2

  “international multimodal transport” means the carriage of goods on the basis of a multimodal transport contract by at least 2 different modes of transport —(a)from a place in a country at which the goods are taken in charge by the multimodal transport operator of the contract;(b)to a place designated for the delivery of the goods situated in a different country;

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• mandatory law

  mandatory law

  Defined · s 2

  “mandatory law” means any law of Singapore, or any international convention forming part of the law of Singapore, relating to the carriage of goods, the provisions of which cannot be departed from by contractual stipulations detrimental to the consignor or consignee;

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• multimodal transport contract

  multimodal transport contract

  Defined · s 2

  “multimodal transport contract” means a contract whereby a multimodal transport operator undertakes, against payment of freight, to perform or to procure the performance of international multimodal transport of goods;

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• multimodal transport operator

  multimodal transport operator

  Defined · s 2

  “multimodal transport operator” means any person who —(a)on the person’s own behalf or through another person acting on the person’s behalf, concludes a multimodal transport contract for the international multimodal transport of any goods;(b)acts as a principal (and not as an agent of or on behalf of the consignor or of any carrier participating in the international multimodal transport of the goods);(c)assumes responsibility for the performance of the multimodal transport contract; and(d)is under the register of the Singapore competent national body or the competent national body of an ASEAN member country;

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