law: The Carriage by Road Act, 2007
  2. Definitions. -
  In this Act, unless
  
  the context otherwise requires,-
  a.  
  
    "common
  
  carrier" means a person engaged in the business of collecting, storing,
  
  forwarding or distributing goods to be carried by goods carriages under a goods
  
  receipt or transporting for hire of goods from place to place by motorised
  
  transport on road, for all persons un-discriminatingly and includes a goods
  
  booking company, contractor, agent, broker and courier agency engaged in the
  
  door-to-door transportation of documents, goods or articles utilising the
  
  services of a person, either directly or indirectly, to carry or accompany such
  
  documents, goods or articles, but does not include the Government;
  b.  
  
    "consignee"
  
  means the person named as consignee in the goods forwarding note;
  c.  
  
    "consignment"
  
  means documents, goods or articles entrusted by the consignor to the common
  
  carrier for carriage, the description or details of which are given in the
  
  goods forwarding note;
  d.  
  
    "consignor"
  
  means a person, named as consignor in the goods forwarding note, by whom or on
  
  whose behalf the documents, goods or articles covered by such forwarding note
  
  are entrusted to the common carrier for carriage thereof;
  e.  
  
   "goods"
  
  
  
  includes-
   
  
   i.  
  
    containers,
  
  pallets or similar articles of transport used to consolidate goods; and
   
  
   ii.  
  
    animals
  
  or livestock;
  a.  
  
  
  
  
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  d.  
  
  
  e.  
  
  
  f.  
  
    "goods
  
  forwarding note" means the document executed under section 8;
  g.  
  
    "goods
  
  receipt" means the receipt issued under section 9;
  h.  
  
  
  
    "person"
  
  includes any association or body of persons, whether incorporated or not, a
  
  road transport booking company, contractor and an agent or a broker carrying on
  
  the business of a common carrier;
  i.  
  
    "prescribed"
  
  means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
  j.  
  
    "registering
  
  authority" means a State Transport Authority or a Regional Transport
  
  Authority constituted under section 68 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988;
  k.  
  
    "registration"
  
  means the registration granted or renewed under sub-section (5) of section 4.