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RAILWAYS.
or carriage, etc.
*
of sum due for carriage of goods,
and for non-payment of fare.
+
room or apartment provided for the exclusive use of females, knowing the same to be so appropriated, or who remains therein after having been informed of its appropriation; and
(2) every person who without lawful excuse enters any special carriage or compartment reserved for the private use of any other person, knowing the same to be so reserved, or who remains therein after being requested to leave the same; and
(3) every person who, having obtained a ticket of one class, knowingly and wilfully refuses or neglects to leave any room or place set apart for passengers of a higher class,
may be forthwith removed therefrom and also from the railway premises and, further, shall forfeit his fare and shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.
Remedy for 45. If any person shall fail to pay on demand any sum due non-payment 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 administrator, 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 realize 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.
Further provision for detention and forfeiture
in certain
cases.
45A.-(1) The administrator, or any person or persons authorized by him in this behalf, may detain any goods found on any train-
(a) which are without any apparent owner; or
(b) which (not being bona fide passengers' baggage placed on the train by, or with the authority of, a railway official) have not been declared for freight.
* As amended by No. 28 of 1927 [23.12.27].
† As amended by No. 5 of 1934 (6.4.34], † As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
1126
No. 21 of 1909.
RAILWAYS.
or carriage, etc.
*
of sum due for carriage of goods,
and for non- payment of fare.
+
room or apartment provided for the exclusive use of females, knowing the same to be so appropriated, or who remains therein after having been informed of its appropriation; and
(2) every person who without lawful excuse enters any special carriage or compartment reserved for the private use of any other person, knowing the same to be so reserved, or who remains therein after being requested to leave the same; and
(3) every person who, having obtained a ticket of one class, knowingly and wilfully refuses or neglects to leave any room. or place set apart for passengers of a higher class,
may be forthwith removed therefrom and also from the railway premises and, further, shall forfeit his fare and shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.
Remedy for 45. If any person shall fail to pay on demand any sum due non-payment 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 there- after come into the possession of the administrator, 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 realize 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.
Further provision for deten- tion and forfeiture
in certain
cases.
45A.-(1) The administrator, or any person or persons authorized by him in this behalf, may detain any goods found on any train-
(a) which are without any apparent owner; or
(b) which (not being bonâ fide passengers' baggage placed on the train by, or with the authority of, a railway official) have not been declared for freight.
* As amended by No. 28 of 1927 [23.12.27].
As amended by No. 5 of 1934 (6.4.34], † As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
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