Section 23
of Railways Tariff Book Rules 1979
Section 23
The responsibility of the Railway Department as a carrier of passengers’ luggage shall be as set out in section 13 of the Ordinance with the following additions:
(a)
the responsibility of the Railway Department for the loss, destruction or deterioration of any article of passengers’ luggage in its custody shall not, whether such article is registered or not, extend to the payment in respect of any one article and its contents of any sum in excess of the limits hereby prescribed, which is to stay –
(i)
in the case of a passenger duly furnished with a ticket for a carriage of the First Class … RM250;
(ii)
in the case of a passenger duly furnished with a ticket for a carriage of the Economy Class … RM75, unless the articles has been declared at the time of its delivery to the Railway Department to be of a higher value than the limits herein prescribed;
(b)
a passenger who declares the value of luggage to be in excess of the amount for which liability is limited as prescribed in paragraph (a) of this rule, must prepare a Consignment Note stating the value of the luggage and pay to the Railway Department a percentage charge for the increased risk at the rate of five per cent on the difference between the amount of the Railway Department’s liability and the declared value of the luggage. In the case of a passenger who declines to pay the increased percentage the Consignment Note and the Railway receipt will be endorsed “Consigner declines to pay increased percentage” and the endorsement initialled by the Railway clerk.
Responsibility of the Railway Department for articles of special value.