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HOTEL PROPRIETORS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 2

Modifications of liabilities and rights of inn-keepers as such.

2.(1) Without prejudice to any other liability incurred by him with respect to
any property brought to the hotel, the proprietor of an hotel shall not be
liable as an innkeeper to make good to any traveller any loss of or damage to
such property unless and save only where

(a)at the time of the loss or damage sleeping accommodation at the hotel had
been engaged for the traveller; and

(b)the loss or damage occurred during the period commencing with the midnight
immediately preceding, and ending with the midnight immediately following, a
period for which the traveller was a guest at the hotel and entitled to use
the accommodation so engaged.

(2) Without prejudice to any other liability or right of his with respect
thereto, the proprietor of an hotel shall not as an innkeeper be liable to
make good to any guest of his any loss of or damage to, or have any lien on,
any vehicle or any property left therein, or any horse or other live animal or
its harness or other equipment.

(3) Subject to sub-section (4), where the proprietor of an hotel is liable as
an innkeeper to make good the loss of or any damage to property brought to the
hotel, his liability to any one guest shall not exceed fifty pounds in respect
of any one article, or one hundred pounds in the aggregate, unless and save
only where

(a)the property was stolen, lost or damaged through the default, neglect or
wilful act of the proprietor or some servant of his; or

(b)the property was deposited by or on behalf of the guest expressly for safe
custody with the proprietor or some servant of his authorised, or appearing to
be authorised, for the purpose, and, if so required by the proprietor or that
servant, in a container fastened or sealed by the depositor; or

(c)at a time after the guest had arrived at the hotel, either the property in
question was offered for deposit as aforesaid and the proprietor or his
servant refused to receive it, or the guest or some other person acting on his
behalf wished so to offer the property in question but, through the default of
the proprietor or a servant of his, was unable to do so.

(4) The proprietor shall not be entitled to the protection of sub-section (3)
unless, at the time when the property in question was brought to the hotel, a
copy of the notice set out in the Schedule printed in plain type was
conspicuously displayed in a place where it could conveniently be read by his
guests at or near the reception office or desk or, where there is no reception
office or desk, at or near the main entrance to the hotel.

© 1958 Crown Copyright

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