(1) These rules may be called the Railways (Extent of Monetary Liability and Prescription of Percentage Charge) Rules, 1990.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of commencement of the Act.

In these Rules unless the context otherwise requires

(a) Act means the Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989).

(b) Baggage means personal effects of a passenger entrusted to a railway administration for carriage.

(c) Excess value in respect of any consignment means the amount by which the value declared by a consignor exceeds the amount of liability of a railway administration as specified or calculated under sub-rule (1) of Rule 3.

(d) Percentage charge means the percentage charge payable on excess value calculated in accordance with the rate specified in Column 2 of Schedule II.

(e) Schedule means the Schedule to these rules.

(f) Words and expressions used and not defined in these rules but defined in the Act shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Act.

(1) Where a railway administration is responsible or loss, damage, destruction, deterioration or non-delivery of any consignment, the amount of liability of such railway administration in respect of such loss, damage, destruction, deterioration or non-delivery shall not, unless the consignor has declared its value and paid percentage charge on excess value of such consignment, exceed,

(i) in the case of any consignment consisting of animals, the amount specified in Schedule I; or

(ii) in the case of any consignment consisting of baggage, an amount calculated at rupees one hundred per kilogramme; or

(iii) in the case of any consignment other than those referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above, an amount calculated at rupees fifty per kilogramme.

(2) Where a railway administration is responsible for loss, damage, destruction, deterioration or non-delivery of any consignment and the consignor has at the time of entrustment for carriage declared the value of such consignment and paid percentage charge on excess value at the rate specified in Part I or Part II as the case may be of Schedule II, the amount of liability of a railway administration for loss, damage, destruction, deterioration or non-delivery of such consignment shall not exceed the value of declared.

Explanation 1. Where in respect of carriage of any consignment, the freight is chargeable on any basis, other than its actual weight, the amount of liability of a railway administration shall be determined with reference to the actual weight of such consignment.

Explanation 2. Where the loss, damage, destruction, deterioration or non-delivery is only with respect to part of a consignment, the weight to be taken into consideration for determining the amount of liability of a railway administration is the weight of the goods lost, damaged, destroyed, deteriorated or non-delivered unless such loss, damage, destruction, deterioration or non-delivery affects the value of the entire consignment.

No railway administration shall accept for carriage, the goods specified in Part I of Schedule II unless the consignor declares the value of such goods and pays the percentage charge applicable to such goods as indicated in Column 2 of Schedule II.

Part I

Part II

1. Vide Noti. No. GSR 557(E), dated 7th June, 1990, published in the Gazette of India, Extra., Part II, Section 3(i), dated 7-6-1990.

2. Subs. by GSR 219(E), dt. 30-3-2009 (w.e.f. 30-3-2009).

3. Added by Noti. No. GSR 90(E), dt. 26-2-1991 (w.e.f. 26-2-1991).

4. Added by Noti. No. GSR 90(E), dt. 26-2-1991 (w.e.f. 26-2-1991).