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(2) The administrator may, in his absolute discretion, either return any goods so detained, or any part thereof, to any person claiming to be the owner thereof, on such terms as he may see fit to impose, or declare such goods, or any part thereof, to be forfeited; and on the making of any such declaration the goods declared to be forfeited shall be deemed to be the property of the Crown free from all rights of any person.
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.
Written
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demand.
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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.
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48.-(1) No person shall carry or cause to be carried 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.
(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.
(3) It shall be lawful for any railway official to refuse to carry any luggage or parcel, vessel or package that may be suspected to contain dangerous or offensive goods and to require the same to be opened, and in case any such luggage or parcel, vessel or package shall have been received for the purpose of being carried on the railway, it shall be lawful for any railway official to stop the transit thereof until he is satisfied that the nature and contents of the luggage or parcel, vessel or package are not dangerous or offensive.
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(2) The administrator may, in his absolute discretion, either return any goods so detained, or any part thereof, to any person claiming to be the owner thereof, on such terms as he may see fit to impose, or declare such goods, or any part thereof, to be forfeited; and on the making of any such declaration the goods declared to be forfeited shall be deemed to be the property of the Crown free from all rights of any person.
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.
Written
account of goods to be given on
demand.
account
47. Every such owner or person as aforesaid who, upon Penalty for demand by any railway official, fails to give such account or giving no wilfully gives a false account`shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for every ton of account. goods and not exceeding ten dollars for any quantity less than a
ton.
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48.-(1) No person shall carry or cause to be carried upon Carriage of a railway any dangerous goods as defined by section 2 of the goods of a dangerous Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, or any goods which may or offensive
nature. be declared dangerous or offensive by any general rule made under section 32 of this Ordinance, except in accordance with Ordinance the provisions of any general rule made under the last-mentioned 1873. section.
(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.
(3) It shall be lawful for any railway official to refuse to carry any luggage or parcel, vessel or package that may be suspected to contain dangerous or offensive goods and to require the same to be opened, and in case any such luggage or parcel, vessel or package shall have been received for the purpose of being carried on the railway, it shall be lawful for any railway official to stop the transit thereof until he is satisfied that the nature and contents of the luggage or parcel, vessel or package are not dangerous or offensive.
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