2 Rights under shipping documents

2  Rights under shipping documents

(1)     Subject to the following provisions of this section, a person who becomes-—

(a)     the lawful holder of a bill of lading;

(b)     the person who (without being an original party to the contract of carriage) is the person to whom delivery of the goods to which a sea waybill relates is to be made by the carrier in accordance with that contract; or

(c)     the person to whom delivery of the goods to which a ship's delivery order relates is to be made in accordance with the undertaking contained in the order,

shall (by virtue of becoming the holder of the bill or, as the case may be, the person to whom delivery is to be made) have transferred to and vested in him all rights of suit under the contract of carriage as if he

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