New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
Reprint as at 3 December 2007
| Public Act | 1979 No 43 |
| Date of assent | 14 November 1979 |
| Commencement | see section 1(2) |
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.
This Act is administered by the Ministry of Justice.
1 Short Title and commencement
8 Kinds of contract of carriage
9 Liability of contracting carrier
10 Liability of actual carrier
11 Rights of contracting party where contracting carrier insolvent or cannot be found
12 Special rules relating to liability of carrier in respect of baggage
13 Contracts of successive carriage by air
14 Carrier not liable in certain circumstances
15 Limitation of amount of carrier's liability
16 Liability of carrier's employee
Warranty by contracting parties
17 Contracting party to warrant condition of goods, etc
18 Notice of claim of damage or partial loss to be given within 30 days
20 Actions by consignee if not contracting party
22 Actions for recovery of freight
24 Storage and disposal of unclaimed or rejected goods
25 Disposal of perishable goods
26 Disposal of dangerous goods
27 Liability of carrier extinguished
28 Common carrier of goods abolished
29 Proceedings against New Zealand agent of overseas carrier
An Act to restate and reform the law relating to the carriage of goods within New Zealand
