On Friday, Lok Sabha passed the transport of goods from the sea, 2024, paving of a journey to enact modern naval law in a country that is synchronized with current times, provides easy business and alleviates with international conventions.
The new bill will replace Indian transport from the colonial era of the 1925 Sea Act, which the Minister of Port, Sarbananda Sonowal, stated that it is part of a government initiative to eliminate old colonial era laws that survived their usefulness and replaced them that provide easier maritime regulations.
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“This new legislation is part of a larger government initiative to get rid of all the remnants of colonial thinking and ensure easy understanding and easy business through simple and rationalized law,” Sonowal said when he said.
He said that the new bill will clarify the rights, obligations, obligations and immunity of carriers involved in trading goods by means of a sea route.
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“The new legislation intends to facilitate and easily comprehensible provisions, which makes regulations more efficient,” Sonowal said.
The bill also entitles the Government of the Union to issue instructions for all trade matters related to the sea route.
The bill was approved by voice vote in the lower house. He was introduced during the monsoon meeting of parliament last year, but could not be discussed.
Observance of international laws
The bill stipulates obligations, obligations, rights and immunity of goods transmitted from the port in India to another port in India or in any other port in the world. It also meets the International Convention on the Unification of Certain Legal Rules concerning the Laws of the Conosor in August 1924 (The Hague Rules) and the subsequent changes.
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The bill seizes the Union’s government to issue instructions for implementing its provisions and to change the rules determining the rules relating to cononed accounts. The position is a document issued by the carrier of the carrier. It contains details such as type, quantity, condition and goal of the goods. The rules outline liability, obligations, rights and immunity.
Meanwhile, Sonowal also introduced the Indian Ports Bill 2025 in Lok Sabha on Friday. This bill proposes to integrate ports related to ports, facilitate port development, simplify business operations and maximize the use of the Indian coast. It also proposes to create state naval councils to supervise ports that are not a major, and the establishment of the Council for the Development of the Naval State for coordinated port sector growth.
Further provisions of the bill include clear instructions for control of pollution, disaster management, safety, safety, navigation and data management in ports while ensuring compliance with international obligations of India.
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