Section 383: Restrictions on carriage of dangerous goods

383. Restrictions on carriage of dangerous goods.—(1) A person shall not send or attempt to send by any vessel, Pakistani or foreign, and a person not being the master or owner of the vessel, shall not carry or attempt to carry in any such vessel, any dangerous goods, without distinctly marking their nature on the outside of the package containing the same, and giving written notice of the nature of those goods and of the name and address of the sender or carrier thereof to the master or owner of the vessel at or before the time of sending the same to be shipped or taking the same on board the vessel. (2) If any person fails, without reasonable cause to comply with this section, he shall, for each offence, be liable to a fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees or if he shows that he was merely an agent in the shipment of any such goods as aforesaid, and was not aware and did not suspect and had no reason to suspect that the goods shipped by him were of a dangerous nature, he shall be liable to a fine which may extend to five thousand rupees.

Effective date: 2001-01-01

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