Article 200 of Commercial Code

1 - Any clause providing for the total or partial exemption of the transport commission agent from bodily injury sustained by the passenger shall be void. 2 - Any clause that would oblige the passenger in any manner to pay all or part of the costs of insurance against the commission agent's liability shall be deemed an exemption from liability. 3 - Except in the two cases of wilful misconduct and gross negligence by the transport commission agent or one of his subordinates, or by the carrier or one of his subordinates, the commission agent may stipulate his total or partial exemption from liability arising from the loss of the thing, damage to it or delay in its delivery, and from liability arising from delay in the passenger's arrival or non-bodily harm sustained by him. 4 - The exemption-from-liability clause must be in writing, and the agent must have informed the principal or the passenger of it. 1281 Index of the Law Home Page Commercial Law Decree-Law No. 68 of 1980 Promulgating the Commercial Law