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Marine Liability Act ( 2001, c. 6 )
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Bille MARINE LIABILITY ACT
Bille SHORT TITLE
Bille INTERPRETATION
Bille HER MAJESTY
Bille PART 1: PERSONAL INJURIES AND FATALITIES
Bille Interpretation and Application
Bille Liability to Dependants
Bille PART 2: APPORTIONMENT OF LIABILITY
Bille Interpretation and Application
Bille General
Bille Limitation of Time
Bille PART 3: LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR MARITIME CLAIMS
Bille Interpretation
Bille Application
Bille Liability of Owners of Docks, Canals and Ports
Bille Amendment of Maximum Liability
Bille Procedure
Bille PART 4: LIABILITY FOR CARRIAGE OF PASSENGERS BY WATER
Bille Interpretation
Bille Application
Bille Regulations and Orders
Bille PART 5: LIABILITY FOR CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY WATER
Bille Interpretation
Bille Hague-Visby Rules
Bille Hamburg Rules
Bille Institution of Proceedings in Canada
Bille PART 6: LIABILITY AND COMPENSATION FOR POLLUTION
Bille Interpretation
Bille Application
Bille DIVISION 1: CIVIL LIABILITY FOR POLLUTION
Bille Owners of Ships
Bille Special Rules — Convention Ships
Bille Registration of Foreign Judgments
Bille DIVISION 2: COMPENSATION FOR POLLUTION
Bille International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund
Bille Ship-source Oil Pollution Fund
Bille Administrator and Deputy Administrator
Bille Liability of Ship-source Oil Pollution Fund
Bille Claims Arising under Section 51
Bille Claims for Loss of Income
Bille Proceedings against Shipowner
Bille Limit of Liability of Ship-source Oil Pollution Fund
Bille Application to Court for Directions
Bille Payments into the Ship-source Oil Pollution Fund
Bille Annual Report
Bille Interest on Claims
Bille Regulations
Bille Offences and Punishment
Bille PART 7: VALIDATION OF CERTAIN BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS
Bille By-laws under the Canada Ports Corporation Act
Bille Regulations under the Pilotage Act
Bille PART 8: TRANSITIONAL, CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS, CONDITIONAL AMENDMENT, REPEAL AND COMING INTO FORCE
Bille Transitional
Bille Consequential Amendments
Bille Conditional Amendment
Bille Repeal
Bille Coming into Force
Bille SCHEDULE 1
Bille PART 1
Bille CHAPTER I. THE RIGHT OF LIMITATION
Bille ARTICLE 1: Persons entitled to limit liability
Bille ARTICLE 2: Claims subject to limitation
Bille ARTICLE 3: Claims excepted from limitation
Bille ARTICLE 4: Conduct barring limitation
Bille ARTICLE 5: Counterclaims
Bille CHAPTER II. LIMITS OF LIABILITY
Bille ARTICLE 6: The general limits
Bille ARTICLE 7: The limit for passenger claims
Bille ARTICLE 8: Unit of Account
Bille ARTICLE 9: Aggregation of claims
Bille ARTICLE 10: Limitation of liability without constitution of a limitation fund
Bille CHAPTER III. THE LIMITATION FUND
Bille ARTICLE 11: Constitution of the fund
Bille ARTICLE 12: Distribution of the fund
Bille ARTICLE 13: Bar to other actions
Bille ARTICLE 14: Governing law
Bille CHAPTER IV. SCOPE OF APPLICATION
Bille ARTICLE 15
Bille PART 2
Bille ARTICLE 18: Reservations
Bille ARTICLE 8: Amendment of limits
Bille ARTICLE 9
Bille SCHEDULE 2
Bille PART 1
Bille ARTICLE 1: Definitions
Bille ARTICLE 2: Application
Bille ARTICLE 3: Liability of the carrier
Bille ARTICLE 4: Performing carrier
Bille ARTICLE 5: Valuables
Bille ARTICLE 6: Contributory fault
Bille ARTICLE 7: Limit of liability for personal injury
Bille ARTICLE 8: Limit of liability for loss of or damage to luggage
Bille ARTICLE 9: Unit of account and conversion
Bille ARTICLE 10: Supplementary provisions on limits of liability
Bille ARTICLE 11: Defences and limits for carriers’ servants
Bille ARTICLE 12: Aggregation of claims
Bille ARTICLE 13: Loss of right to limit liability
Bille ARTICLE 14: Basis for claims
Bille ARTICLE 15: Notice of loss or damage to luggage
Bille ARTICLE 16: Time-bar for actions
Bille ARTICLE 17: Competent jurisdiction
Bille ARTICLE 18: Invalidity of contractual provisions
Bille ARTICLE 19: Other conventions on limitation of liability
Bille ARTICLE 20: Nuclear damage
Bille ARTICLE 21: Commercial carriage by public authorities
Bille ARTICLE 22: Declaration of non-application
Bille PART 2
Bille ARTICLE III
Bille ARTICLE VIII: Amendment of limits
Bille SCHEDULE 3: HAGUE-VISBY RULES
Bille ARTICLE I: Definitions
Bille ARTICLE II: Risks
Bille ARTICLE III: Responsibilities and Liabilities
Bille ARTICLE IV: Rights and Immunities
Bille ARTICLE IV BIS: Application of Defences and Limits of Liability
Bille ARTICLE V: Surrender of Rights and Immunities, and Increase of Responsibilities and Liabilities
Bille ARTICLE VI: Special Conditions
Bille ARTICLE VII: Limitations on the Application of the Rules
Bille ARTICLE VIII: Limitation of Liability
Bille ARTICLE IX: Liability for Nuclear Damage
Bille ARTICLE X: Application
Bille SCHEDULE 4: HAMBURG RULES
Bille UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY SEA, 1978
Bille Preamble
Bille PART I: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Bille ARTICLE 1: Definitions
Bille ARTICLE 2: Scope of application
Bille ARTICLE 3: Interpretation of the Convention
Bille PART II: LIABILITY OF THE CARRIER
Bille ARTICLE 4: Period of responsibility
Bille ARTICLE 5: Basis of liability
Bille ARTICLE 6: Limits of liability
Bille ARTICLE 7: Application to non-contractual claims
Bille ARTICLE 8: Loss of right to limit responsibility
Bille ARTICLE 9: Deck cargo
Bille ARTICLE 10: Liability of the carrier and actual carrier
Bille ARTICLE 11: Through carriage
Bille PART III: LIABILITY OF THE SHIPPER
Bille ARTICLE 12: General rule
Bille ARTICLE 13: Special rules on dangerous goods
Bille PART IV: TRANSPORT DOCUMENTS
Bille ARTICLE 14: Issue of bill of lading
Bille ARTICLE 15: Contents of bill of lading
Bille ARTICLE 16: Bills of lading: reservations and evidentiary effect
Bille ARTICLE 17: Guarantees by the shipper
Bille ARTICLE 18: Documents other than bills of lading
Bille PART V: CLAIMS AND ACTIONS
Bille ARTICLE 19: Notice of loss, damage or delay
Bille ARTICLE 20: Limitation of actions
Bille ARTICLE 21: Jurisdiction
Bille ARTICLE 22: Arbitration
Bille PART VI: SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS
Bille ARTICLE 23: Contractual stipulations
Bille ARTICLE 24: General average
Bille ARTICLE 25: Other conventions
Bille ARTICLE 26: Unit of account
Bille PART VII: FINAL CLAUSES
Bille ARTICLE 27: Depositary
Bille ARTICLE 28: Signature, ratification, acceptance, approval, accession
Bille ARTICLE 29: Reservations
Bille ARTICLE 30: Entry into force
Bille ARTICLE 31: Denunciation of other conventions
Bille ARTICLE 32: Revision and amendment
Bille ARTICLE 33: Revision of the limitation amounts and unit of account or monetary unit
Bille ARTICLE 34: Denunciation
Bille COMMON UNDERSTANDING ADOPTED BY THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON THE CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY SEA
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Bille Marine Liability Regulations
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Bille Related Instruments Information (from the Consolidated Index of Statutory Instruments)
Bille Coming into Force information (from the Table of Public Statutes and Responsible Ministers)

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