Although the legislation on sea-carriage documents in different States and Territories in Australia, taking for example the Sea-Carriage Documents Act 1997 of Tasmania, and the legislation on the Commonwealth level, namely the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1991, were the product of decades ago, these pieces of legislation have their scope extended to encompass technological developments to some extents, see in particular section 5 of the Sea-Carriage Documents Act 1997 (TAS) and Article 1A of the Amended Hague Rules contained in the Schedule 2 of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1991 (Cwlth).

Analyse and discuss whether the scope of these pieces of legislation is likely to be wide enough to encompass blockchain-based bills of lading.