S.L. 499.1 Art. 80Documents required before cargo delivered.

(1) Before the delivery of goods or cargo may be made by the Authority or its contractor the consignee or his agent shall present to the Authority or the contractor, in such number of copies as the Authority may require, at the place or places appointed by the Authority during the hours of business fixed by regulations by the Minister responsible for ports, the following set of documents:

(a) declaration and disposal orders, in the form specified in the Tenth Schedule, (hereinafter in this regulation referred to as "the said form") complete in every detail and specifying the respective marks and numbers on packages, or on articles in respect of unpacked goods, their number, description and contents with the deadweight, cubic measurement and when specifically for each separate consignment;

(b) bills of lading or ship’s delivery orders showing clearly to whose order the goods are to be delivered, containing a complete and accurate chain of endorsement from the shipper to the holder, and duly released by the ship’s agents, for all cargo landed or to be landed;

(c) in the case of transhipment cargo, a shipping order complete in every detail.

(2) For the purposes of subregulation (1)(a), the specification of deadweight and cubic measurement shall not be necessary in the case of cargo on which rates are assessed on the basis defined in the tonnage scale provided for in the tariff, and in such case either the deadweight or the cubic measurement shall be given in accordance with the basis defined in he said scale of the said tariff.

(3) The presentation to the Authority or the contractor of the documents specified in subregulation (1) shall be sufficient grounds for the Authority or the contractor, as the case may be, to deliver the goods to which those documents relate to the person presenting such documents: Provided that all dues and rates specified in the tariff in respect of such goods have been paid or duly secured.