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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>HOTEL 
                                              PROPRIETORS ACT, 1957 (NO. 20 OF 
                                              1957)</b></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">ARRANGEMENT OF 
                                              SECTIONS</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">Section</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">1. Short title.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">2. 
                                              Interpretation.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">3. Liabilities 
                                              and rights of hotel proprietors as 
                                              innkeepers.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">4. Modification 
                                              of liabilities and rights of hotel 
                                              proprietors as innkeepers.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">5. Repeal. 26 
                                              and 27 Vict. C.41.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">SCHEDULE</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">Schedule</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;GHANA</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">1957 NO. 20.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">DATE OF ASSENT</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">Assented to in 
                                              Her Majesty's Name and on Her 
                                              Majesty's behalf this 28th day of 
                                              September, 1957.</font></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 288.0pt">
                                              <font face="Arial">K. A. KORSAH</font></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 288.0pt">
                                              <font face="Arial">Acting 
                                              Governor-General.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">AN ACT&nbsp; to 
                                              amend the law relating to inns and 
                                              innkeepers.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">Date of 
                                              Commencement: [5th October, 
                                              1957.].</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">BE IT ENACTED 
                                              by the Queen's Most Excellent 
                                              Majesty, by and with the advice 
                                              and consent of the National 
                                              Assembly of Ghana in this present 
                                              Parliament assembled, and by the 
                                              authority of the same as follows:&#8212;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section 
                                              1&#8212;Short Title.</b></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">This Act may be 
                                              cited as the Hotel Proprietors 
                                              Act, 1957.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section 
                                              2&#8212;Interpretation.</b></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(1) In this 
                                              Act, the expression &quot;hotel&quot; 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. 
                                              Such an establishment shall, and 
                                              any other establishment shall not, 
                                              be deemed to be an inn.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">Cap. 1</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(2) The 
                                              Interpretation Ordinance shall 
                                              apply for the interpretation of 
                                              this Act as it applies for the 
                                              interpretation of an Ordinance.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section 
                                              3&#8212;Liabilities and Rights of Hotel 
                                              Proprietors as Innkeepers.</b></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(1) The duties, 
                                              liabilities and rights which 
                                              immediately before the 
                                              commencement of this Act by law 
                                              attached to an innkeeper as an 
                                              innkeeper shall, subject to the 
                                              provisions of this Act, attach to 
                                              the proprietor of an hotel and 
                                              shall not attach to any other 
                                              person.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(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.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section 
                                              4&#8212;Modification of Liabilities and 
                                              Rights of Hotel Proprietors.</b></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(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&#8212;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(a) at the time 
                                              of the loss or damage sleeping 
                                              accommodation at the hotel had 
                                              been engaged for the traveller; 
                                              and</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(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.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(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.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(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&#8212;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(a) the 
                                              property was stolen, lost or 
                                              damaged through the default, 
                                              neglect or wilful act of the 
                                              proprietor or of some servant of 
                                              his; or</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(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</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(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 do so:</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial"><i>Proviso.</i></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">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.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section 
                                              5&#8212;Repeal.</b></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">The Innkeepers 
                                              Liability Act, 1863, as it applies 
                                              in Ghana is hereby repealed.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">SCHEDULE</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(Section 4)</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">NOTICE</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">LOSS OF OR 
                                              DAMAGE TO GUESTS' PROPERTY</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">Under the Hotel 
                                              Proprietors Act, 1957, 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.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">This liability 
                                              however&#8212;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(a) extends 
                                              only to the property of guests who 
                                              have engaged sleeping 
                                              accommodation at the hotel;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(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;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(c) does not 
                                              cover motor-cars or other vehicles 
                                              of any kind or any property left 
                                              in them, or horses or other live 
                                              animals.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">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.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">This printed 
                                              impression has been carefully 
                                              compared by me with the Bill which 
                                              has passed the National Assembly, 
                                              and found by me to be a true and 
                                              correctly printed copy of the said 
                                              Bill.</font></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 216.0pt">
                                              <font face="Arial">L. P. TOSU</font></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 216.0pt">
                                              <font face="Arial">Acting Clerk of 
                                              the National Assembly.</font></p>
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