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Enforced by: HMRC
Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Any Person1

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Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.003 Liabilities under shipping documents. Regulated

Assume legal liabilities when claiming or taking delivery of sea-freght goodsAny Person

5 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Shipping documents etc. to which Act applies.

s.002 Rights under shipping documents.

s.004 Representations in bills of lading.

s.005 Interpretation etc.

s.006 Short title, repeal, commencement and extent.

Help complying

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Export logistics and shipping documentation

Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.