1964_DISPOSAL_OF_UNCOLLECTED_GOODS_ORDINANCE — Page 7

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CAP. 294]

Disposal of Uncollected Goods

[1984 Ed.

English and Chinese indicating that, in the case of goods of that class accepted before the commencement of this Ordinance for repair or other treatment, this Ordinance confers on the bailee a right of sale exercisable in certain circumstances after an interval of not less than 18 months from the commencement of this Ordinance,

but the bailee shall not be entitled to sell the goods before the expiration of the period of 18 months beginning with the commence- ment of this Ordinance.

(2) Where the provisions of subsection (1) are complied with in relation to any goods, the bailee shall, notwithstanding anything in section 2(3), be entitled to sell them otherwise than by public auction, and paragraph (ii) of the proviso to the said section 2(3) shall not apply in relation to those goods.

(3) Where goods are sold by virtue of the fact that subsec- tions (1) and (2) have been complied with, then sections 2 to 5 shall have effect in relation to the goods subject to the following modifications, that is to say-

(a) for any reference in section 4(2) to a copy of the notice of the bailee's intention to sell the goods and the certificate of posting of the letter in which the notice was sent there shall be substituted a reference to a statement of the name and issue of the newspaper in which the notice under subsec- tion (1)(a) was published;

(b) for the reference in section 5(2)(a) to the giving of the notice that the goods are ready for redelivery there shall be substituted a reference to the publication of the notice under subsection (1)(a).

(4) A notice under subsection (1)(a) in relation to any goods must contain-

(a) a sufficient description of the class to which the goods

belong;

(b) the name under which the bailee carries on the business consisting of or comprising the acceptance of goods of that class for repair or other treatment and the address of the bailee's principal place of business or, where the bailee is a corporation, the registered or principal office of the cor- poration, and if the name or the address have changed during the 12 months immediately preceding the date of the publication of the notice, the last such name or, as the case may be, the last such address preceding the change thereof; and

a statement that if the bailor of the goods fails within the period of 18 months beginning with the commencement of this Ordinance both to pay the sum which the bailee claims to be due to him by way of his charges in relation to the

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