Section 51
Remedy for non-payment of the carriage of goods or fares
If any person shall fail to pay on demand any sum due for the conveyance of any goods, it shall be lawful for the Director to detain all or any part of such goods, or, if the same shall have been removed from the premises appertaining to the railway, any other goods of such person which shall then be upon such premises or shall thereafter come into the possession of the Director or any person authorised on his behalf, and after reasonable notice to such person to sell by public auction a sufficient quantity of such goods to realise the sum payable as
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aforesaid, and all charges and expenses of such detention and sale; and out of the proceeds of the sale to retain the sum so payable, together with the charges and expenses aforesaid, rendering the surplus, if any, of the money arising by such sale and such of the goods as shall remain unsold, to the person entitled thereto;
or the Director may recover any sum by action at law.
(2)
The goods of passengers may be detained and sold, and the proceeds disposed of as above provided for non-payment of the fares due by the owners thereof.