Act of Parliament · As enacted
Licensing of Shipping Agents (Amendment) Act 2002
Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk
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s 1Short title
This Act may be cited as the Licensing of Shipping
Agents (Amendment) Act, No. 18 of 2002.
s 2Amendment of the long title to Act, No. 10 of 1972
The Long Title to the Licensing of Shipping Agents
Act, No. 10 of 1972, (hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amended by the substitution for the words “BUSINESS OF A SHIPPING AGENT” of the words
“BUSINESS OF A SHIPPING AGENT, FREIGHT
FORWARDERS, NON VESSEL OPERATING COMMON
CARRIERS, AND CONTAINER OPERATORS.”.
s 3
Licensing of Shipping Agents Act, and the Shipping Agents to be known as Licensing of Shipping Agents, Freight Forward-ers and Non Vessel Operating Common Carriers and Container Operators Act, and the Shipping Agents, Freight Forwarders non Vessel Operating Common Carriers and Container Operators respectively
In the principal enactment and in any other written law, there shall be substituted—
for the words, “Licensing of Shipping Agents Act”
of the words “Licensing of Shipping Agents, Freight
Forwarders, Non Vessel Operating Common
Carriers, and Container Operators Act ;
for the words, “Shipping Agents” of the words
“Shipping Agents, Freight Forwarders, Non Vessel
Operating Common Carriers and Container
Operators.
Every reference to the “Licensing of Shipping Agents
Act” and “Shipping Agents” in any notice, notification, contract, communication or other document shall be read and construed as a reference to “Licensing of Shipping Agents,
Freight Forwarders, Non Vessel Operating Common Carriers and Container Operators Act”, and “Shipping Agents, Freight
Forwarders, Non Vessel Operating Common Carriers and
Container Operator,” respectively.
s 4Amendment of section 15 of the principal enactment
Section 15 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :—
by the insertion immediately after the definition of the expression “appropriate authority” of the following new definition :—
“container operators” means a person engaged in the business of container terminal, container depot and container freight station operation in Sri Lanka ;
“freight forwarders” means any person engaged in the business of International Freight
Forwarding which includes undertaking the carriage or the procurement of the carriage by air, sea, or land and the provision of other services connected with such carriage, but shall not include any services provided by a person for the carriage of goods or services provided solely as the agent of an airline or ship owner or charterer of a ship ;
by the insertion immediately after the definition of the expression “license” of the following new definition :—
“Non Vessel Operating Common Carrier” means a freight forwarder who also engages in the functions of a carrier ;
s 5Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency
In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.