PART I
Documents in relation to which the Court “SHALL presume”.
1. Lloyd’s Register of Shipping.
2. Lloyd’s Daily Shipping Index.
3. Lloyd’s Loading List.
4. Lloyd’s Weekly Casually Reports.
5. Certificate of delivery of goods to the Manchester Ship Canal Company.
6. Official log book, supplementary official log book and official wireless log kept by a British ship.
7. Certificate of Registry, Safety Certificate, Safety Radio-Telegraphy Certificate, Exemption
Certificate, Certificate of Survey, Declaration of Survey, International Load Line Certificate, 1
[Indian
Load Line Certificate], Report of Survey of a ship provisionally detained as unsafe, Report of Survey to
be served upon the master of a ship declared unsafe upon survey, Docking Certificate, Memorandum
issued under Article 56 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1929.
8. Certificates A and B issued under the Indian Merchant Shipping Act, 1923.
9. The following documents relating to marine insurance, namely, insurance policy, receipt for
premium, certificate of insurance and insurance cover note.
10. Certificate concerning the loss of country craft issued by the appropriate authority under
Department of Commerce, Mercantile Marine Department Circular No. 2 of 1938.
11. Protest made before a Notary Public or other duly authorised official by a master of a ship relating
to circumstances calculated to affect the liability of the ship-owner.
12. Licence or permit for radio-telegraph apparatus carried in ships or aircraft.
13. Certificate of registration of an aircraft granted by the Government of the country to which the
aircraft belongs.
14. Certificate of airworthiness of an aircraft granted or validated by, or under the authority of, the
Government of the country to which the aircraft belongs.
15. Licences and certificates of competency of aircraft personnel granted or validated by, or under the
authority of, the Government of the country to which the personnel belongs.
16. Ground Engineer’s licence issued by a competent authority authorised in this behalf by
Government.
17. Consular Certificate in respect of goods shipped or shut out, consular certificates of origin, and
consular invoice.
1. Subs. by Act 35 of 1950, s. 3 and the Sch. II, for “British India Load Line Certificate”.
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18. Certificate of originof goods issued (but not merely attested) by a recognised Chamber of
Commerce, or by 1
[an Indian or British Consular officer, or by an Indian or British] Trade Commissioner
or Agent.
19. Receipt for payment of customs duty issued by a customs authority.
20. Schedule issued by a port, dock, harbor, wharfage or warehouse authority, or by a Railway
company, showing fees, dues, freights or other charges for the storage, transport of other services in
connection with goods.
21. Tonnage schedule and schedule of fees, commission or other charges for services rendered, issued
by a recognised Chamber of Commerce.
22. The publication known as the Indian Railway Conference Association Coaching and Goods
Tariffs.
23. Copy, certified by the Registrar of Companies, of the Memorandum or the articles of association
of a company, files under the Indian Companies Act, 19132
.
24. Protest, nothing and certifying the dishonor of a bill of exchange, made before a Notary Public or
other duly authorised official.
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PART II
Documents in relation to which the Court “MAY presume”
1. Survey report issued by a competent authority —
(i) in respect of cargo loaded; or
(ii) certifying the quantity of coal loaded; or
(iii) in respect of the security of hatches.
2. Official log book, supplementary official log book and official wireless log kept by a foreign ship.
3. Dock certificate, dock chalan, dock receipt or warrant, port warehouse certificate or warrant, issued
by, or under the authority of, a port, dock, harbour or wharfage authority.
4. Certificate issued by a port, dock, harbour, wharfage or other authority having control of
acceptance of goods for shipping, transport or delivery, relating to the date or time of shipment of goods,
arrival of goods for acceptance, arrival of vessels or acceptance or delivery of goods, or to the allocation
of berthing accommodation to vessels.
5. Export application issued by a port authority showing dues paid, weight and measurement and the
shutting out of a consignment.
6. Certificate or receipt showing the weight or measurement of a consignment issued by the official
measurer of the Conference Lines, or by a sworn or licensed measurer, or by a recognised Chamber of
Commerce.
7. Reports and publications issued by a port authority showing the movement of vessels and
certificates issued by such authority relating to such movements.
1. Subs. by the A.O. 1948 for “a British Consular officer or British or Indian”.
2. See now the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956).
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8. Certificate of safety for flight signed by a licensed Ground Engineer.
9. Aircraft log book, journey log book and log book, maintained by the owner or operator in respect
of aircraft.
10. Passenger list or manifest of goods carried in public transport aircraft.
11. Passenger ticket issued by a steamship company or air transport company.
12. Air consignment note and baggage check, issued by an air transport company in respect of goods
carried by air, and the counterfoil or duplicate thereof retained by the carrier.
13. Aircraft load sheet.
14.Storage warrant of a warehouse recognised by a customs, excise, port, dock, harbour, wharfage or
warehouse authority.
15. Acknowledgment receipt for goods granted by a port, dock, harbour, wharfage or warehouse
authority or by a Railway or Steamship company.
16. Customs or excise pass and customs or excise permit or certificate, issued by a customs or excise
authority.
17. Force majeure certificate issued by a recognised Chamber of Commerce.
18. Receipt of a Railway or Steamship company granted to a consignor in acknowledgment of goods
entrusted to the company for transport.
19. Receipt granted by the Posts and Telegraphs Department.
20. Certificate or survey award issued by a recognised Chamber of Commerce relating to the Quality,
size, weight or valuation of any goods, count of yarn or percentage of moisture in yarn and other goods.
21. Copy, certified by the Registrar of Companies, of the balancesheet, profit and loss account, and
audit report of a company, filled with the said Registrar under the Indian Companies Act, 19131
, and the
rules made thereunder.