LawgistThe Railways Act
77Power of railway administration to deliver goods or sale proceeds thereof in certain cases
Where no railway receipt is forthcoming and any consignment or the sale proceeds of any consignment are claimed by two or more persons, the railway administration may withhold delivery of such consignment or sale proceeds, as the case may be, and shall deliver such consignment or sale proceeds in such manner as may be prescribed.
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CARRIAGE OF GOODS
- 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
