New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMON CARRIERS ACT 1902 - SECT 5

5 Increased charge may be demanded

(1) When any parcel or package containing any of the articles specified in the said Schedule is delivered and its value and contents declared as aforesaid and such value exceeds the sum of twenty dollars such common carrier may demand an increased rate of charge.

(2) Such increased rate shall be notified by a notice affixed in legible characters in some public and conspicuous part of the office warehouse or other receiving-house where such parcels or packages are received by such common carrier for the purpose of conveyance stating the increased rates of charge required to be paid over and above the ordinary rate of carriage as a compensation for the greater risk and care to be taken for the safe conveyance of such valuable articles.

(3) All persons sending or delivering parcels or packages containing such valuable articles as aforesaid at such office warehouse or other receiving-house shall be bound by such notice without further proof of the same having come to their knowledge.