1964_DISPOSAL_OF_UNCOLLECTED_GOODS_ORDINANCE — Page 2

1984 Ed.]

Disposal of Uncollected Goods

[CAP. 294

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CHAPTER 294

DISPOSAL OF UNCOLLECTED GOODS

To authorize the disposal of goods accepted in the course of a business for repair or other treatment but not redelivered; and for purposes connected therewith.

Originally

42 of 1969.

21 of 1970.

January 1970.]

1.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Disposal of Uncol- lected Goods Ordinance.

2. (1) This Ordinance shall apply in relation to the bailment of any goods accepted (whether before or after the commencement of this Ordinance) by the bailee, in the course of a business, for repair or other treatment on the terms (express or implied) that they will be redelivered to the bailor or in accordance with the bailor's directions when the repair or other treatment has been carried out and on payment to the bailee of such charges as may be agreed between the parties or as may be reasonable.

(2) Where goods accepted as aforesaid are ready for redelivery but the bailor fails both-

(a) to pay or tender to the bailee his charges in relation to the

goods; and

(b) to take delivery of the goods or, if the terms of the bailment

so provide, to give directions as to their delivery.

the bailee shall, subject to the provisions of any agreement between him and the bailor and to the following provisions of this Ordinance, be entitled, while the failure continues, to sell the goods.

(3) The bailee shall not be entitled by virtue of subsection (2) to sell goods accepted by him for repair or other treatment unless the following provisions are complied with, that is to say-

(a) at all premises used or appropriated by the bailee for accepting for repair or other treatment goods of the class to which the goods accepted belong, there is, at the time of the acceptance (whether or not the goods are accepted at any such premises), conspicuously displayed in the part of the premises so used or appropriated a notice written in English and Chinese indicating that the acceptance by the bailee of goods of that class for repair or other treatment is subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and that this Ordinance confers on the bailee a right of sale exercisable in certain circumstances after an interval of not less than 12 months from the date on which the goods are ready for redelivery;

(b) after the goods are ready for redelivery, or after the com- mencement of this Ordinance, whichever is the later, the

Short title,

Right of bailees to sell goods accepted for repair or other treatment but not redelivered. 1952 c. 43, s. }.