1784
Remedy for non-payment for carriage of goods, and for non-payment of fare.
of sum due
Written account of goods to be given on demand.
Penalty for giving no account or false account.
*
Carriage of goods of an offensive nature.
No. 21 of 1909.
RAILWAYS
45. If any person shall fail to pay on demand any sum due for the conveyance of any goods on a railway, it shall be lawful for the manager to detain all or any part of such goods or if the same shall have been removed from the railway premises any other goods of such person which may be therein or shall thereafter come into the possession of the administration, and it shall be lawful for the manager, after reasonable notice to such person, to sell by public auction a sufficient quantity of such goods to realise the sum payable as aforesaid and all charges and expenses of such detention and sale, and out of the proceeds to retain the said sums rendering the surplus, if any, and such of the goods as shall remain unsold to the person entitled thereto: or the manager may recover any such sums by action at law. The goods of passengers may also be detained and sold and the proceeds disposed of as above provided for non-payment of the fare due by them.
46. The owner or person having the care of any goods which shall have been carried upon a railway or shall be brought to the railway premises for the purpose of being carried on the railway shall on demand by any railway official deliver to him an exact account in writing signed by him of the number or quantity and description of such goods. This provision shall not apply to passengers' luggage.
47. Every such owner or person as aforesaid who, upon demand by any railway official, fails to give such account or wilfully gives a false account, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for every ton of goods, and not exceeding ten dollars for any quantity less than a ton.
48.-(1) No person shall carry or cause to be carried dangerous or upon a railway any dangerous goods as defined by section 2 of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, or any goods which may be declared dangerous or offensive by any general rule made under section 32 of this Ordinance, except in accordance with the provisions of any general rule made under the last-mentioned section.
*
Ordinance No. 1 of 1873.
(2) Every person who carries upon or delivers for carriage by the railway any such dangerous goods without distinctly declaring the nature of the same shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
1784
Remedy for
non-payment for carriage of goods, and for non- payment of fare.
of sum due
Written account of goods to be given on demand.
Penalty for giving no account or false account.
*
Carriage of goods of a
offensive
nature.
No. 21 of 1909.
RAILWAYS.
45. If any person shall fail to pay on demand any sum due for the conveyance of any goods on a railway, it shall be lawful for the manager to detain all or any part of such goods or if the same shall have been removed from the railway premises any other goods of such person which may be therein or shall thereafter come into the possession of the administration, and it shall be lawful for the manager, after reasonable notice to such person, to sell by public auction a sufficient quantity of such goods to realise the sum payable as aforesaid and all charges and expenses of such detention and sale, and out of the proceeds to retain the said sums rendering the surplus, if any, and such of the goods as shall remain unsold to the person entitled thereto : or the manager may recover any such sums by action at law. The goods of passengers may also be detained and sold and the proceeds disposed of as above provided for non-payment of . the fare due by them.
46. The owner or person having the care of any goods which shall have been carried upon a railway or shall be brought to the railway premises for the purpose of being carried on the railway shall on demand by any railway official deliver to him an exact account in writing signed by him of the number or quantity and description of such goods. This provision shall not apply to passengers' luggage.
47. Every such owner or person as aforesaid who, upon demand by any railway official, fails to give such account or wilfully gives a false account, shall upon summary con- viction be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for every ton of goods, and not exceeding ten dollars for any quantity less than a ton.
48.-(1) No person shall carry or cause to be carried dangerous or upon a railway any dangerous goods as defined by section 2 of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, or any goods which may be declared dangerous or offensive by any general rule made under section 32 of this Ordinance, except in accordance with the provisions of any general rule made under the last-mentioned section.
*
Ordinance
No. 1 of 1873.
(2) Every person who carries upon or delivers for carriage by the railway any such dangerous goods without distinctly declaring the nature of the same shall upon summary con- viction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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