Hotel Proprietors Act, 1956 CH62
An Act to amend the law relating to inns and innkeepers.
[2nd August, 1956]
B E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1.—( 1) An hotel within the meaning of this Act shall, and any Inns and
other establishment shall not, be deemed to be an inn; and the innkeepers.
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 hotel and shall not attach to any other
person.
(2) The proprietor of an hotel shall, as an innkeeper, be under
the like liability, if any, to make good to any guest of his any
damage to property brought to the hotel as he would be under to
make good the loss thereof.
(3) In this Act, the expression "hotel" means an establishment held out by the proprietor as offering food, drink and, if so required, sleeping accommodation, without special contract, to any traveller presenting himself who appears able and willing to pay a reasonable sum for the services and facilities provided and who is in a fit state to be received.
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 except where —
(a) at the time of the loss or damage sleeping accommodation
at the hotel had been engaged for the traveller; and
1
4 & 5 ELIz. 2 Hotel Proprietors Act, 1956 CH. 62
CHAPTER 62
Modifications
of liabijities and
rights of
innkeepers
as such.
CH. 62 Hotel Proprietors Act, 1956 4 & 5 Euz. 2
(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) 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,
except 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 guest 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
doso:
Provided that the proprietor shall not be entitled to the protection
of this subsection unless, at the time when the property
in question was brought to the hotel, a copy of the notice set
out in the Schedule to this Act 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.
Short title, 3.—(l) This Act may be cited as the Hotel Proprietors Act, 1956.
repeal, extent (2) The Innkeepers' Liability Act, 1863, is hereby repealed.
mencement. (3) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
26 & 27 Vict. (4) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of
41. January, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven.
2
4 & 5 ELIz. 2 Hotel Proprietors Act, 1956 CH. 62
SCHEDULE Section2.
NOTICE
Loss OF OR DAMAGE TO GUESTS' PROPERTY
Under the Hotel Proprietors Act, 1956, 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.
© Crown copyright 1956
Printed in the UK for The Stationery Office Limited
under the authority and superintendence of Carol Tullo, Controller of
Her Majesty's Stationery Office and Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament.
1st Impression August 1956
15th Impression December 1999
Dd758329 12/99 1731 56219

Originally posted by zerbot565
reply to post by deltaboy

---

im just curious as to how he did serve his country when he was not even in it ?
he was wounded in afganistan so wouldent that make him a servant of the afgan people not the brittish.

till this day i havent seen any afgan milita in the uk ,


the afgan war is nothing more then securing the poppy lines to medical facilities in europe,

www.poppyformedicine.net...