Section 16: Owner’s lien for freight

16. Owner’s lien for freight.—(1) If the master or owner of any vessel, at or before the time of landing from such vessel of any goods at any wharf, dock, quay, stage, jetty or pier, gives to the Board notice in writing that such goods are to remain subject to a lien for freight, primage or general average of any amount to be mentioned in such notice, such goods shall continue to be liable, after the landing thereof, to such lien. (2) Such goods shall be retained either in the warehouses and sheds of the Board or, with the consent of the Collector of Customs, in a public warehouse, at the risk and expense of the owner of the said goods, until the lien is discharged as hereinafter mentioned.

Effective date: 1973-01-01

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