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Section 7
The Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993

Section 7. Issue of multimodal transport document

(1) Where the consignor and the multimodal transport operator have entered into a contract for the multimodal transportation and the multimodal transport operator has taken charge of the goods, he shall, at the option of the consignor, issue a negotiable or non-negotiable multimodal transport document:

1[Provided that the multimodal transport operator shall issue the multimodal transport document only after obtaining, and during the subsistence of a valid insurance cover.]

(2) The multimodal transport document shall be signed by the multimodal transport operator or by a person duly authorised by him.

1Superscript markers show text inserted or substituted by a later amendment. The Act carries the markers without the footnotes they refer to, so they are shown without a target.