Lawgist66Power to require statement relating to the description of goods
(1) The owner or a person having charge of any goods which are brought upon a railway for the purposes of carriage by railway, and the consignee or the endorsee of any consignment shall, on the request of any railway servant authorised in this behalf, deliver to such railway servant a statement in writing signed by such owner or person or by such consignee or endorsee, as the case may be, containing such description of the goods as would enable the railway servant to determine the rate for such carriage.
(2) If such owner or person refuses or neglects to give the statement as required under sub-section (1) and refuses to open the package containing the goods, if so required by the railway servant, it shall be open to the railway administration to refuse to accept such goods for carriage unless such owner or person pays for such carriage the highest rate for any class of goods.
(3) If the consignee or endorsee refuses or neglects to give the statement as required under sub-section (1) and refuses to open the package containing the goods, if so required by the railway servant, it shall be open to the railway administration to charge in respect of the carriage of the goods the highest rate for any class of goods.
(4) If the statement delivered under sub-section (1) is materially false with respect to the description of any goods to which it purports to relate, the railway administration may charge in respect of the carriage of such goods such rate, not exceeding double the highest rate for any class of goods as may be specified by the Central Government.
(5) If any difference arises between a railway servant and such owner or person, the consignee or the endorsee, as the case may be, in respect of the description of the goods for which a statement has been delivered under sub-section (1), the railway servant may detain and examine the goods.
(6) Where any goods have been detained under sub-section (5) for examination and upon such examination it is found that the description of the goods is different from that given in the statement delivered under sub-section (1), the cost of such detention and examination shall be borne by such owner or person, the consignee or the endorsee, as the case may be, and the railway administration shall not be liable for any loss, damage or deterioration which may be caused by such detention or examination.
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- 61 Maintenance of rate-books, etc., for carriage of goods
- 62 Conditions for receiving, etc., of goods
- 63 Provisions of risk rates
- 64 Forwarding note
- 65 Railway receipt
- 66 Power to require statement relating to the description of goods
- 67 Carriage of dangerous or offensive goods
- 68 Carriage of animals suffering from infectious or contagious diseases
- 69 Deviation of route
- 70 Prohibition of undue preference
- 71 Power to give direction in regard to carriage of certain goods
- 72 Maximum carrying capacity for wagons and trucks
- 73 Punitive charge for overloading a wagon
- 74 Passing of property in the goods covered by railway receipt
- 75 Section 74 not to affect right of stoppage in transit or claims for freight
- 76 Surrender of railway receipt
- 77 Power of railway administration to deliver goods or sale proceeds thereof in certain cases
- 78 Power to measure, weigh, etc
- 79 Weighment of consignment on request of the consignee or endorsee
- 80 Liability of railway administration for wrong delivery
- 81 Open delivery of consigrments
- 82 Partial delivery of consignments
- 83 Lien for freight or any other sum due
- 84 Unclaimed consignment
- 85 Disposal of perishable consignments in certain circumstances
- 86 Sales under sections 83 to 85 not to affect the right to suit
- 87 Power to make rules in respect of matters in this Chapter
