- In these Conditions, the following expressions, except where the context otherwise requires or where it is otherwise stated, shall have the following meanings: -
- " Authority " means a duly constituted legal or administrative person acting within its legal powers and exercising jurisdiction within any nation, state, municipality, port or airport;
- " Conditions " means the entire undertakings, terms, conditions and clauses embodied herein;
- "Company" is the Federation of Malaysian Freight Forwarders member trading under these Conditions;
- " Customer " means any person at whose request or on whose behalf the Company undertakes any business, or provides advice, information, or services;
- " Person " includes any individual, persons or any Body or Bodies Corporate;
- " Owner " includes the owner, shipper and consignee of the Goods and any other person who is or may become interested in the Goods and anyone acting on their behalf;
- " Services " means any business undertaken or any advice, information or services provided by the Company,
- " Dangerous Goods " includes: -
- dangerous goods as defined in the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1952 ( as revised )
- goods specified in the Customs and Exercise Act and Regulations; Port Authority's ( Amendment ) By - Laws
- goods which are or may become of a dangerous, inflammable or radio-active character or damaging to itself or other property, or goods so dangerously packed, or goods likely to harbour or encourage vermin or other pests, or goods which owing to legal, administrative or other obstacles as to their carriage, discharge or otherwise may be detained or cause any other property or person to be detained; and
- empty receptacles which were previously used for the carriage Dangerous Goods unless such receptacles have been rendered safe;
- " Goods " includes goods, wares, merchandise, cargo, articles of kind and any Container not supplied by or on behalf of the Company, or any part thereof, in respect of which the Company provides any Services;
- " Container " means freight container (including without limitation any container, flexitank, trailer, transportable tank, flat, pallet or any article used to consolidate goods) which may carry unique identification numbers and markings, as well as any equipment (including devices, which permit its ready handling) forming part thereof or connected thereto;
- " Multimodal Transport Operator " shall have the same meaning as set out in the International of Freight Forwarders Associations
- " Owner " includes the owner, shipper and consignee of the Goods and any other person who is or may become interested in the Goods and anyone acting on their behalf;
- " Electronic Data Interchange " means the electronic transfer from computer to computer of commercial or administrative transactions using agreed standard to structure the transaction or message data;
- " Hague Rules " means the provisions of the International Convention for the Unification of certain Rules of Law relating to Bills of Lading, signed at Brussels on August 25, 1924;
- " Hague - Visby Rules " means the provisions of the International Convention for the Unification of certain Rules relating to Bills of Lading signed at Brussels on 25 Aug 1924, as amended by the Protocol made on 23 Feb 1968;
- " Warsaw Convention " means the Convention for the Unification of certain rules relating to international carriage by air opened for signature at Warsaw on 12 October 1929, as amended by the Hague Protocol of 1955 and the Montreal Protocol of 1995;
- " Instructions " means a statement of the Customer's specific instructions;
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