Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Carriers and Innkeepers Act 1958 - SECT 27

Meaning of inn and guest

27. Meaning of inn and guest



(1) An inn within the meaning of this Act shall, and any other establishment
shall not, be deemed to be a common inn; and the duties, liabilities and
rights which immediately before the commencement of this Act by law attached
to an innkeeper as such shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, attach
to the proprietor of such an inn and shall not attach to any other person.

(2) For the purpose of this Act, a traveller shall be deemed to be a guest at
an inn only on days during which he is entitled to use a room at the inn that
has been engaged by or for him for sleeping.