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Sections
Book 1 Commercial entities
Division 1 Merchants
Division 2 Commercial register; business register
- Section 8 — Commercial register
- Section 8a — Entries in the Commercial Register; authorisation to issue ordinances
- Section 8b — Business Register
- Section 9 — Inspection of the Commercial Register and the Business Register
- Section 9a — Transfer of the administration of the Business Register; authorisation to issue ordinances
- Section 9b — European system of interconnection of registers
- Section 9c — Exchange of information regarding disqualified persons via the European system of interconnection of registers
- Section 10 — Notice by publication of the entries; register notices by publication
- Section 10a — Application of Regulation (EU) 2016/679
- Section 11 — Disclosure in an official language of a Member State of the European Union
- Section 12 — Applications for registration, and submissions
- Section 13 — Branch offices of enterprises having their seat in Germany
- Section 13a — European branch offices of share capital companies having their seat in Germany
- Section 13d — Seat or main office abroad
- Section 13e — Branch offices of share capital companies having their seat abroad
- Section 13f — Branch offices of stock corporations having their seat abroad
- Section 13g — Branch offices of limited liability companies having their seat abroad
- Section 13h — Transfer of the seat of a domestic main office
- Section 14
- Section 15
- Section 15a — Service by publication
- Section 16
Division 3 Commercial business name
- Section 17
- Section 18
- Section 19
- Section 21
- Section 22
- Section 23
- Section 24
- Section 25
- Section 26
- Section 27
- Section 28
- Section 29
- Section 30
- Section 31
- Section 32
- Section 33
- Section 34
- Section 37
- Section 37a
Division 5 General commercial power of representation and commercial authority to act
- Section 48
- Section 49
- Section 50
- Section 51
- Section 52
- Section 53
- Section 54
- Section 55
- Section 56
- Section 57
- Section 58
Division 6 Commercial employees and commercial apprentices
- Section 59
- Section 60
- Section 61
- Section 62
- Section 64
- Section 65 — Where it is agreed that as a rule, the commercial employee is to receive a commission for transactions concluded or negotiated by them, the provisions applicable to commercial agents in section 87 (1) and (3) and in sections 87a to 87c apply.
- Section 74
- Section 74a
- Section 74b
- Section 74c
- Section 75
- Section 75a — Prior to termination of the employment relationship, the principal may waive the non-compete clause, by means of a written declaration, to the effect that, at the end of one year after the declaration, they will be free of the obligation to pay compensation.
- Section 75c
- Section 75d — The principal may not invoke rights resulting from an agreement which deviates from the provisions of sections 74 to 75c to the detriment of the commercial employee. This also applies to agreements intended, by way of set-off or other means, to circumvent the statutory provisions concerning minimum compensation.
- Section 75f
- Section 75g
- Section 75h
- Section 82a
- Section 83
Division 7 Commercial agents
- Section 84
- Section 85
- Section 86
- Section 86a
- Section 86b
- Section 87
- Section 87a
- Section 87b
- Section 87c
- Section 87d — The commercial agent may demand reimbursement of expenses incurred by them in the ordinary course of business only if this is customary in the trade.
- Section 88a
- Section 89
- Section 89a
- Section 89b
- Section 90
- Section 90a
- Section 91
- Section 91a
- Section 92
- Section 92a
- Section 92b
- Section 92c
Division 8 Commercial brokers
- Section 93
- Section 94
- Section 95
- Section 96
- Section 97
- Section 98
- Section 99
- Section 100
- Section 101
- Section 102
- Section 103
- Section 104
Division 9 Provisions on regulatory offences
Title 1 Formation of a partnership
Title 2 Legal relations of partners to one another
- Section 109
- Section 110
- Section 111
- Section 112
- Section 113
- Section 114
- Section 115
- Section 116
- Section 117
- Section 118
- Section 119
- Section 120
- Section 121
- Section 122
Title 3 Legal relations of partners to third parties
- Section 123
- Section 124
- Section 125
- Section 125a
- Section 126
- Section 127
- Section 128
- Section 129
- Section 129a
- Section 130
Title 4 Dissolution of the partnership and withdrawal of partners
- Section 131
- Section 132
- Section 133
- Section 134
- Section 135 — Where a personal creditor of a partner, after an attempt to levy compulsory enforcement on the movable property of the partner has proved unsuccessful within the past six months, obtains, by virtue of other than a merely provisionally enforceable title of execution, an attachment and transfer of claim to what is due the partner in the case of a winding up of the partnership, such personal creditor of a partner may terminate the partnership with effect to the end of the fiscal year, irrespective of whether the partnership was entered into for a fixed term or for an indefinite period, by giving notice six months before the end of such fiscal year.
- Section 139
- Section 140
- Section 143
- Section 144
Title 5 Liquidation of the partnership
- Section 145
- Section 146
- Section 147
- Section 148
- Section 149
- Section 150
- Section 151
- Section 152
- Section 153
- Section 154
- Section 155
- Section 156
- Section 157
- Section 158
Title 6 Statute of limitations. Time limit on liability.
Part 2 Partly limited partnership
- Section 161
- Section 162
- Section 163
- Section 164
- Section 165
- Section 166
- Section 167
- Section 168
- Section 169
- Section 170
- Section 171
- Section 172
- Section 172a
- Section 173
- Section 174
- Section 175
- Section 176
- Section 177
- Section 177a — Section 125a also applies to a partnership in which a limited partner is a natural person. The particulars concerning the partners prescribed under section 125a (1) sentence 2 are required only for the general partners of the partnership.
Part 3 Silent partnership
Division 1 Provisions applicable to all merchants
- Section 238 — Duty to keep books
- Section 239 — Maintenance of commercial records
- Section 240 — Inventory
- Section 241 — Procedures for simplified inventory-taking
- Section 241a — Release from the duty to keep books and to prepare an inventory
- Section 242 — Reporting requirement
- Section 243 — Principles governing the process of drawing up reports
- Section 244 — Language, currency
- Section 245 — Signature
Title 2 Provisions on recognition
- Section 246 — Completeness, prohibition of set-off
- Section 247 — Content of the balance sheet
- Section 248 — Items prohibited from inclusion on the balance sheet and options for including items on the balance sheet
- Section 249 — Provisions
- Section 250 — Accrued and deferred items
- Section 251 — Contingent liabilities and commitments
Title 3 Valuation rules
- Section 252 — General principles of valuation
- Section 253 — Initial recognition and subsequent valuation
- Section 254 — Creation of combined items for valuation purposes
- Section 255 — Standards of valuation
- Section 256 — Procedures for simplified valuation
- Section 256a — Currency translation
- Section 257 — Retention of documents
- Section 258 — Production of records in a legal dispute
- Section 259 — Excerpt of records produced in a legal dispute
- Section 260 — Production of records in the case of distributions of assets
- Section 261 — Production of documents on image carriers or data carriers
- Section 262
- Section 263 — Reservation of the provisions of the laws applicable at the Land level
Title 1 General provisions
- Section 264 — Reporting requirement; exemption
- Section 264a — Application to certain general partnerships and partly limited partnerships
- Section 264b — Exemption of the general partnerships and partly limited partnerships within the meaning of section 264a from application of the provisions of this Division
- Section 264c — Special provisions for general partnerships and partly limited partnerships within the meaning of section 264a
- Section 264d — Publicly traded share capital company
- Section 265 — General principles governing classifications
Title 2 Balance sheet
- Section 266 — Layout of the balance sheet
- Section 267 — Allocation to size categories
- Section 267a — Micro share capital companies
- Section 268 — Provisions regarding individual items of the balance sheet
- Section 269
- Section 270 — Creation of certain items
- Section 271 — Participating interests, affiliated enterprises
- Section 272 — Equity capital
- Section 273
- Section 274 — Deferred taxes
- Section 274a — Eased requirements based on the size of the enterprise
Title 3 Profit and loss account
- Section 275 — Layout
- Section 276 — Eased requirements based on the size of the enterprise
- Section 277 — Provisions on individual items of the profit and loss account
- Section 278
Title 5 Notes
- Section 284 — Explanation of the balance sheet and of the profit and loss account
- Section 285 — Other mandatory disclosures
- Section 286 — Non-disclosure of information
- Section 287
- Section 288 — Eased requirements based on the size of the enterprise
Title 6 Management report
- Section 289 — Content of the management report
- Section 289a — Supplementary requirements for certain stock corporations and public partly limited partnerships
- Section 289b — Obligation to draw up a non-financial statement; exemptions
- Section 289c — Content of the non-financial statement
- Section 289d — Use of frameworks
- Section 289e — Omission of detrimental information
- Section 289f — Corporate governance statement
Title 1 Scope of application
- Section 290 — Reporting requirement
- Section 291 — Exemptive effect of consolidated financial statements drawn up in accordance with EU/EEA accounting standards
- Section 292 — Exemptive effect of consolidated financial statements drawn up in accordance with the accounting standards of a third state
- Section 292a
- Section 293 — Exemptions granted based on the size of the enterprise
Title 2 Scope of consolidation
- Section 294 — Enterprises to be included, duties to make submissions and provide information
- Section 295
- Section 296 — Waiver of inclusion
Title 3 Content and form of the consolidated financial statements
- Section 297 — Content
- Section 298 — Applicable provisions; eased requirements
- Section 299 — Cut-off date for drawing up the consolidated financial statements
Title 4 Full consolidation
- Section 300 — Consolidation principles; Requirement to provide full and complete information
- Section 301 — Consolidation of capital
- Section 302
- Section 303 — Consolidation of debt obligations
- Section 304 — Treatment of interim profits or losses
- Section 305 — Consolidation of expenditures and earnings
- Section 306 — Deferred taxes
- Section 307 — Shares of other shareholders
Title 5 Valuation rules
- Section 308 — Uniform valuation
- Section 308a — Conversion of financial statements presented in a foreign currency
- Section 309 — Treatment of the difference
Title 6 Proportional consolidation
Title 7 Associated enterprises
- Section 311 — Definition; exemption
- Section 312 — Values recognised for participating interests and treatment of the difference
Title 8 Notes to the consolidated financial statements
- Section 313 — Explanation of the consolidated balance sheet and of the consolidated profit and loss account, information on possession of participating interests
- Section 314 — Other mandatory disclosures
Title 9 Consolidated management report
- Section 315 — Content of the consolidated management report
- Section 315a — Supplementary provisions for certain stock corporations and public partly limited partnerships
- Section 315b — Obligation to draw up a consolidated non-financial statement; exemption
- Section 315c — Content of the consolidated non-financial statement
- Section 315d — Consolidated corporate governance statement
Title 10 Consolidated financial statements in accordance with international accounting standards
- Section 315e
- Section 316 — Duty to audit
- Section 316a — Audit of public-interest entities
- Section 317 — Subject matter and scope of the audit
- Section 318 — Appointment of the statutory auditor; removal from office
- Section 319 — Selection of the auditors and preclusion criteria
- Section 319a
- Section 319b — Network
- Section 320 — Duty to submit documents; right to obtain information
- Section 321 — Auditor’s additional report
- Section 321a — Disclosure of the auditor’s additional report in special cases
- Section 322 — Audit report
- Section 323 — Responsibilities of the statutory auditor
- Section 324 — Audit committee
- Section 324a — Application to the standalone financial statements pursuant to section 325 (2a)
- Section 325 — Disclosure
- Section 325a — Branch offices of share capital companies having their seat abroad
- Section 326 — Eased disclosure requirements, based on the size of the enterprise, for small share capital companies and micro share capital companies
- Section 327 — Eased disclosure requirements, based on the size of the enterprise, for medium-sized share capital companies
- Section 327a — Eased requirement for certain publicly traded share capital companies
- Section 328 — Form, format and content of the documents at disclosure, publication and reproduction
- Section 329 — Verification and notification duties of the body maintaining the Business Register
- Section 330
Title 1 Penal provisions and provisions as to administrative fines
- Section 331 — Incorrect presentation
- Section 331a — Incorrect assurance
- Section 332 — Breach of reporting obligations
- Section 333 — Breach of confidentiality obligations
- Section 333a — Breach of duties entailed by statutory audits
- Section 334 — Provisions concerning administrative fines
Title 2 Coercive fines
- Section 335 — Imposition of coercive fines; powers to issue statutory instruments
- Section 335a — Complaint against the imposition of a coercive fine; complaint on points of law; power to issue statutory instruments
Title 3 Common provisions for criminal proceedings, proceedings for the imposition of administrative fines and proceedings for the imposition of coercive fines
- Section 335b — Application of the penal provisions and of the provisions as to administrative fines as well as the provisions concerning coercive fines to certain general partnerships and partly limited partnerships
- Section 335c — Notifications made to the Auditor Oversight Body
- Section 336 — Duty to draw up annual financial statements and a management report
- Section 337 — Provisions concerning the balance sheet
- Section 338 — Provisions concerning the notes
- Section 339 — Disclosure
Title 1 Scope of application
Title 2 Annual financial statements, management report, interim financial statements
- Section 340a — Applicable provisions
- Section 340b — Repurchase agreements
- Section 340c — Provisions concerning the profit and loss account and the notes
- Section 340d — Maturity breakdown
Title 3 Valuation rules
- Section 340e — Valuation of assets
- Section 340f — Provisions for general banking risks
- Section 340g — Special item for general banking risks
Title 4 Currency translation
Title 5 Consolidated financial statements, consolidated management report, interim consolidated financial statements
Title 6 Audit
Title 7 Disclosure
Title 8 Penal provisions and provisions as to administrative fines, coercive fines
- Section 340m — Penal provisions
- Section 340n — Provisions as to administrative fines
- Section 340o — Imposition of a coercive fine
Title 1 Scope of application
Title 2 Annual financial statements, management report
Title 3 Valuation rules
- Section 341b — Valuation of assets
- Section 341c — Registered bonds, mortgage loans and other receivables
- Section 341d — Investment stock of unit-linked life insurance
Title 4 Insurance technical provisions
- Section 341e — General accounting principles
- Section 341f — Life assurance provision
- Section 341g — Provisions for claims outstanding
- Section 341h — Equalisation provisions and similar provisions
Title 5 Consolidated financial statements, consolidated management report
Title 6 Audit
Title 7 Disclosure
Title 8 Penal provisions and provisions as to administrative fines, coercive fines
- Section 341m — Penal provisions
- Section 341n — Provisions as to administrative fines
- Section 341o — Imposition of a coercive fine
- Section 341p — Application to pension funds of the penal provisions and the provisions concerning administrative fines and coercive fines
Title 1 Scope of application; definitions
Title 2 Report on payments to governmental bodies, consolidated report on payments to governmental bodies and disclosure
- Section 341s — Duty to draw up the report on payments to governmental bodies; exemptions
- Section 341t — Content of the report on payments to governmental bodies
- Section 341u — Layout of the report on payments to governmental bodies
- Section 341v — Consolidated report on payments to governmental bodies; exemption
- Section 341w — Disclosure
Title 3 Provisions as to administrative fines, coercive fines
Title 1 Scope; definitions
Title 2 Duty to issue reports on income tax information
- Section 342b — Unaffiliated enterprises having their seat in Germany
- Section 342c — Ultimate parent enterprises having their seat in Germany
- Section 342d — Subsidiary enterprises having their seat in Germany of ultimate parent enterprises having their seat in a third state
- Section 342e — Domestic branch offices of unaffiliated enterprises having their seat in a third state
- Section 342f — Domestic branch offices of affiliated enterprises having their seat in a third state
Title 3 Enterprises to be included; content and form of the report on income tax information
- Section 342g — Enterprises to be included
- Section 342h — Mandatory disclosures
- Section 342i — Information shown by country
- Section 342j — Currency
- Section 342k — Omission of detrimental particulars
- Section 342l — Form sheet; machine readable electronic format
Title 4 Disclosure and publication
- Section 342m — Disclosure in the Business Register
- Section 342n — Publication on the company website
Title 5 Provisions concerning administrative fines; coercive fines
- Section 342o — Provisions concerning administrative fines
- Section 342p — Coercive fines
- Section 342q — Financial reporting committee incorporated under private law
- Section 342r — Financial reporting advisory council
Book 4 Commercial transactions
Division 1 General provisions
- Section 343
- Section 344
- Section 345
- Section 346
- Section 347
- Section 348
- Section 349
- Section 350
- Section 351
- Section 352
- Section 353
- Section 354
- Section 354a
- Section 355
- Section 356
- Section 357
- Section 358
- Section 359
- Section 360
- Section 361
- Section 362
- Section 363
- Section 364
- Section 365
- Section 365a
- Section 366
- Section 367
- Section 368
- Section 369
- Section 370
- Section 371
- Section 372
Division 2 Commercial sale of goods
- Section 373
- Section 374
- Section 375
- Section 376
- Section 377
- Section 378
- Section 379
- Section 380
- Section 381
- Section 382
Division 3 Transactions on a commission basis
- Section 383
- Section 384
- Section 385
- Section 386
- Section 387
- Section 388
- Section 389
- Section 390
- Section 391
- Section 392
- Section 393
- Section 394
- Section 395
- Section 396
- Section 397 — Commission agent’s lien
- Section 398
- Section 399
- Section 400
- Section 401
- Section 402
- Section 403
- Section 404
- Section 405
- Section 406
Division 4 Freight business
- Section 407 — Contract of carriage
- Section 408 — Consignment note, authorisation to issue statutory instruments
- Section 409 — Evidentiary effect of the consignment note
- Section 410 — Dangerous goods
- Section 411 — Packaging, labelling
- Section 412 — Loading and unloading, authorisation to issue statutory instruments
- Section 413 — Accompanying documents
- Section 414 — Sender’s liability in special cases, irrespective of fault
- Section 415 — Termination by the sender
- Section 416 — Right to carriage of part of a consignment
- Section 417 — Carrier's rights if loading time is not complied with
- Section 418 — Subsequent instructions
- Section 419 — Obstacles to carriage and delivery
- Section 420 — Payment, calculation of freight
- Section 421 — Rights of consignee, duty to pay
- Section 422 — Cash on delivery
- Section 423 — Delivery period
- Section 424 — Presumption of loss
- Section 425 — Liability for loss of or damage to goods and for delay in delivery, loss sharing
- Section 426 — Exclusion of liability
- Section 427 — Particular grounds for exclusion of liability
- Section 428 — Responsibility for other persons
- Section 429 — Compensation based upon value
- Section 430 — Assessment costs
- Section 431 — Maximum amount of liability
- Section 432 — Compensation for other costs
- Section 433 — Maximum liability in cases of other pecuniary loss
- Section 434 — Non-contractual claims
- Section 435 — Cessation of the exemptions and limitations
- Section 436 — Liability of employees
- Section 437 — Actual carrier
- Section 438 — Notice of damage
- Section 439 — Prescription
- Section 440 — Carrier's lien
- Section 441 — Subsequent carrier
- Section 442 — Ranking order of several liens
- Section 443 — Consignment bill, authorisation to issue statutory instruments
- Section 444 — Effect of the consignment bill, entitlement
- Section 445 — Delivery in exchange for the consignment bill
- Section 446 — Carrying out instructions
- Section 447 — Objections
- Section 448 — Title function of the consignment bill
- Section 449 — Contractual modifications regarding liability
- Section 450 — Application of maritime law
- Section 451 — Removal contract
- Section 451a — Duties of the carrier
- Section 451b — Consignment note, dangerous goods, accompanying documents, duties to report and provide information
- Section 451c
- Section 451d — Particular grounds for exclusion of liability
- Section 451e — Maximum amount of liability
- Section 451f — Notice of damage
- Section 451g — Cessation of exemptions and limitations
- Section 451h — Contractual modifications
- Section 452 — Contract of carriage involving various modes of transport
- Section 452a — Known place of damage
- Section 452b — Notice of damage, prescription
- Section 452c — Removal contract relating to carriage involving various modes of transport
- Section 452d — Contractual modifications
Division 5 Forwarding business
- Section 453 — Forwarding contract
- Section 454 — Arranging for the dispatch of the goods
- Section 455 — Handling of the goods, accompanying documents, duties to report and provide information
- Section 456 — Due date for payment of remuneration
- Section 457 — Claims of the sender
- Section 458 — Forwarder acting as carrier (Selbsteintritt)
- Section 459 — Forwarding at fixed costs
- Section 460 — Collective consignment (Sammelladung)
- Section 461 — Liability of the forwarder
- Section 462 — Responsibility for other persons
- Section 463 — Prescription
- Section 464 — Forwarder's lien
- Section 465 — Subsequent forwarder
- Section 466 — Contractual modifications regarding liability
Division 6 Warehousing business
- Section 467 — Warehousing contract
- Section 468 — Handling of the goods, accompanying documents, duties to report and provide information
- Section 469 — Collective storage
- Section 470 — Receipt of the goods
- Section 471 — Preservation of the goods
- Section 472 — Insurance, storage with a third party
- Section 473 — Duration of storage
- Section 474 — Reimbursement of expenditures
- Section 475 — Liability for loss or damage
- Section 475a — Prescription
- Section 475b — Warehouse keeper's lien
- Section 475c — Warehouse warrant, authorisation to issue statutory instruments
- Section 475d — Effect of the warehouse warrant, entitlement
- Section 475e — Delivery in exchange for the warehouse warrant
- Section 475f — Objections
- Section 475g — Title function of the warehouse warrant
- Section 475h — Contractual modifications
Book 5 Maritime trade
Chapter 1 Persons involved in shipping
- Section 476 — Reeder
- Section 477 — Ausrüster
- Section 478 — Ship’s company
- Section 479 — Rights of the master; ship’s log
- Section 480 — Responsibility of the Reeder for the ship’s company and pilots
- Section 481 — Primary duties; scope of application
- Section 482 — General information regarding the goods
- Section 483 — Dangerous goods
- Section 484 — Packing; leading marks
- Section 485 — Seaworthiness and cargoworthiness
- Section 486 — Handover of the goods for carriage; loading; reloading; discharge
- Section 487 — Accompanying documents
- Section 488 — Liability of the shipper and of third parties
- Section 489 — Termination by the shipper
- Section 490 — Carrier’s rights if the goods are not handed over for carriage in due time
- Section 491 — Subsequent instructions
- Section 492 — Obstacles to carriage and delivery
- Section 493 — Payment; calculation of freight
- Section 494 — Rights of consignee; duty to pay
- Section 495 — Carrier’s lien
- Section 496 — Subsequent carrier
- Section 497 — Ranking order of several liens
Subtitle 2 Liability for loss of or physical damage to the goods
- Section 498 — Grounds for liability
- Section 499 — Particular grounds for exclusion of liability
- Section 500 — Inadmissible loading and stowing of goods on deck
- Section 501 — Responsibility for other persons
- Section 502 — Compensation based upon value
- Section 503 — Assessment costs
- Section 504 — Limit of liability in the event the goods are damaged
- Section 505 — Unit of account
- Section 506 — Non-contractual claims
- Section 507 — Conduct barring exemptions from liability and limitations of liability
- Section 508 — Liability of servants and of the ship’s company
- Section 509 — Actual carrier
- Section 510 — Notice of damage
- Section 511 — Presumption of loss
- Section 512 — Divergent arrangements
Subtitle 3 Accompanying documents
- Section 513 — Entitlement to issuance of a bill of lading
- Section 514 — “On-board” bill of lading; “received-for-shipment” bill of lading
- Section 515 — Contents of the bill of lading
- Section 516 — Bill of lading format; authorisation to issue statutory instruments
- Section 517 — Evidentiary effect of the bill of lading
- Section 518 — Position of Reeder when carrier data are inadequate
- Section 519 — Entitlement under the bill of lading; legitimation
- Section 520 — Carrying out instructions
- Section 521 — Delivery in exchange for the bill of lading
- Section 522 — Objections
- Section 523 — Liability for inaccurate information in the bill of lading
- Section 524 — Transfer effected by the bill of lading (“effect of tradition”)
- Section 525 — Divergent provision made in the bill of lading
- Section 526 — Sea waybill; authorisation to issue statutory instruments
Title 2 Voyage charter contract
- Section 527 — Voyage charter contract
- Section 528 — Port of loading; loading wharf
- Section 529 — Notice of readiness for loading
- Section 530 — Loading time; laytime on demurrage
- Section 531 — Loading and stowing goods
- Section 532 — Termination by the shipper
- Section 533 — Partial carriage
- Section 534 — Termination by the carrier
- Section 535 — Discharge from the ship
- Section 536 — Scope of application
- Section 537 — Definitions
- Section 538 — Liability of the carrier for personal injuries
- Section 539 — Liability of the carrier for physical damage to luggage and damages resulting from delays in the re-delivery of luggage
- Section 540 — Responsibility for other persons
- Section 541 — Limit of liability for personal injury
- Section 542 — Limit of liability for physical damage to luggage and damages due to delays in the re-delivery of luggage
- Section 543 — Interest and costs of court proceedings
- Section 544 — Unit of account
- Section 545 — Conduct barring limitation of liability
- Section 546 — Actual carrier
- Section 547 — Liability of the carrier’s servants and of the ship’s company
- Section 548 — Concurrent claims
- Section 549 — Notice of damage
- Section 550 — Lapse of claims to compensation of damages
- Section 551 — Divergent agreements
- Section 552 — Carrier’s lien
Subchapter 1 Chartering a ship
- Section 553 — Bareboat charter contract
- Section 554 — Turning over and returning the ship; maintenance
- Section 555 — Safeguarding the owner’s rights
- Section 556 — Termination
Subchapter 2 Time charter
- Section 557 — Time charter contract
- Section 558 — Time charter party
- Section 559 — Provision of the ship
- Section 560 — Maintenance of the ship in contractually agreed condition
- Section 561 — Use of the ship
- Section 562 — Notification obligations
- Section 563 — Loading and discharge of goods
- Section 564 — Costs of operating the ship
- Section 565 — Hire
- Section 566 — Owner’s lien
- Section 567 — Breach of duties
- Section 568 — Right of retention
- Section 569 — Return of the ship
Subchapter 1 Collision of ship
- Section 570 — Obligation to compensate for damages
- Section 571 — Contributory fault
- Section 572 — Damage without collision
- Section 573 — Involvement of an inland waterway vessel
Subchapter 2 Salvage
- Section 574 — Duties of the salvor and of other persons
- Section 575 — Prevention or minimisation of damages to the environment
- Section 576 — Right to a reward
- Section 577 — Amount of the salvage reward
- Section 578 — Special compensation
- Section 579 — Exclusion of a claim to remuneration
- Section 580 — Salvor’s misconduct
- Section 581 — Claim to apportionment
- Section 582 — Plurality of salvors
- Section 583 — Saving human life
- Section 584 — Conclusion of a salvage contract and retroactive review of its content by a court
- Section 585 — Lien, right of retention
- Section 586 — Ranking order of several liens
- Section 587 — Provision of security
Subchapter 3 General average
- Section 588 — Preservation from common peril
- Section 589 — Fault or neglect of a party to the adventure or of a third party
- Section 590 — Assessment of the average
- Section 591 — Contribution in general average
- Section 592 — General average disbursements
- Section 593 — Rights of maritime lienors
- Section 594 — Lien of the parties entitled to a general average disbursement; prohibition of delivery
- Section 595 — Settlement of the average
Chapter 5 Maritime lienor
- Section 596 — Secured claims
- Section 597 — Lien held by maritime lienors
- Section 598 — Object of the lien held by the maritime lienors
- Section 599 — Lapse of the claim
- Section 600 — Lapse by passage of time
- Section 601 — Satisfaction of the maritime lienor
- Section 602 — Precedence of the liens held by maritime lienors
- Section 603 — General ranking of liens held by maritime lienors
- Section 604 — Ranking order of liens listed under the same number
Chapter 6 Statutory prescription period
- Section 605 — One-year statutory prescription period
- Section 606 — Two-year statutory prescription period
- Section 607 — Commencement of statutory prescription periods
- Section 608 — Extension of the prescription period
- Section 609 — Arrangements as to the prescription period
- Section 610 — Concurrent claims
Chapter 7 General limitation of liability
- Section 611 — Convention as to the limitation of liability
- Section 612 — Limitation of liability for claims arising from the removal of a wreck
- Section 613 — Limitation of liability for small ships
- Section 614 — Limitation of liability for damages to harbours and waterways
- Section 615 — Limitation of the pilot’s liability
- Section 616 — Conduct barring limitation of liability
- Section 617 — Procedure for limiting liability