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CAP. 372] Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation
[1985 Ed.
By-laws
[Subsidiary]
pecuniary loss, or any other cost or expense caused by mis-delivery, delay or detention of any luggage, goods or other articles arising from-
(a) an Act of God;
(b) any consequence of war, invasion, act of foreign enemy hostilities (whether war be declared or not), civil war, rebellion, insurrection, military or usurped power or confiscation, requisition, destruction, or for damage to person or property by or under the order of any government or public or local authority, riots, civil commotion, strikes, lock-outs, stoppage or restraint of labour from whatever cause whether partial or general;
(c) any seizure under legal process;
(d) any act, omission, neglect or default of any passenger, person or third party whether acting alone or jointly with the Corporation;
(e) any act, omission, neglect or default of any person, passenger or third party or any cause beyond the control of the Corporation or which the Corporation could not with reasonable foresight and care have been expected to foresee;
(f) fraud or other criminal act;
(g) any inherent liability to waste in bulk, latent defect or inherent defect, vice or natural deterioration, of luggage, goods or articles brought on to the railway premises or any part thereof;
(h) insufficient or improper packing or insufficient or improper labelling or addressing of any luggage, goods or articles;
(i) any failure of any passenger or person or the owner or consignee of any luggage, goods or articles in failing to take or accept delivery of any luggage, goods or articles within a reasonable time or doing so within a period of time in excess of the period or periods set out or otherwise referred to in these by-laws;
(j) non-compliance with these by-laws or any of them;
(k) any defect in any train, wagon, vehicle, conveyance, lift, escalator, moving platform, mechanical or electrical apparatus or property or other premises whether or not the same shall belong to or be provided by or on behalf of the Corporation;
(l) loss from any luggage, package, goods or articles or from any packed or unpacked consignment of any luggage, package, goods or articles;