Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Carriers and Innkeepers Act 1958 - SECT 4

Increased rate may be charged

4. Increased rate may be charged

When any parcel or package containing any of the articles above specified is
so delivered and its value and contents declared as aforesaid and such value
exceeds the sum of $20, it shall be lawful for such mail contractor
stage-coach proprietor or common carrier to demand and receive an increased
rate of charge, to be notified by some 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 mail
contractor stage-coach proprietor or common carrier for the purpose of
conveyance, stating the increased rates of charge required to be paid over and
above the ordinary rate of charge as a compensation for the greater risk and
care to be taken for the conveyance of such valuable articles; and all persons
sending to or delivering at such office warehouse or other receiving-house
parcels or packages containing such valuable articles as aforesaid shall be
bound by such notice without further proof of
the same having come to their knowledge.