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HOTEL PROPRIETORS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 3

Short title.

3.(1) This Act may be cited as the Hotel Proprietors Act (Northern Ireland),
1958.

Subs.(2)(3) rep. by SLR 1973Under the Hotel Proprietors Act (Northern
Ireland), 1958, an hotel proprietor may in certain circumstances be liable to
make good any loss of or damage to a guest's property even though it was not
due to any fault of the proprietor or staff of the hotel.

This liability however

(a)extends only to the property of guests who have engaged sleeping
accommodation at the hotel;

(b)is limited to #50 for any one article and a total of #100 in the case of
any one guest, except in the case of property which has been deposited, or
offered for deposit, for safe custody;

(c)does not cover motor-cars or other vehicles of any kind or any property
left in them, or horses or other live animals.

This notice does not constitute an admission either that the Act applies to
this hotel or that liability thereunder attaches to the proprietor of this
hotel in any particular case.



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