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← Merchant Shipping Act 1995

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 s 127

s 127 Lien for freight on landing goods

127.—(1) If, at the time when any goods are landed from any ship and placed in the custody of any person as a wharfinger or warehouseman, the shipowner gives to the wharfinger or warehouseman written notice that the goods are to remain subject to a lien for freight or other charges payable to the shipowner to an amount mentioned in the notice, the goods so landed shall, in the hands of the wharfinger or warehouseman, continue subject to the same lien, if any, for such charges as they were subject to before the landing thereof. (2) The wharfinger or warehouseman receiving those goods must retain them until the lien is discharged as hereinafter mentioned, and must, if the wharfinger or warehouseman fails to do so, make good to the shipowner any loss thereby occasioned to the shipowner.

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