Accommodation Providers Act 1981

Subject to this section, the amount payable in respect of the liability of an accommodation provider to any one person who is a guest at the accommodation establishment with respect to property that, while at the accommodation establishment, is lost, whether by theft or otherwise, or damaged shall not exceed 750 monetary units or, if the Regulations prescribe another amount for the purposes of this subsection, that amount.

The amount that applies in respect of the loss of or damage to property referred to in subsection (1) is the amount that is prescribed at the time the loss or damage occurred.

Subsection (1) shall not have effect unless, at the time the property in question was brought to an accommodation establishment, a copy printed in plain type of the notice appearing in the Schedule was conspicuously displayed in the sleeping accommodation occupied by a guest and in a place where it could conveniently be read by the guest 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 accommodation establishment.

Notwithstanding compliance with subsection (2), subsection (1) shall not have effect where the property in question:

was lost, whether by theft or otherwise, or damaged through the default, neglect or wilful act of the accommodation provider or his servant;

was deposited by or on behalf of a guest expressly for safekeeping with the accommodation provider or his servant authorized or appearing to be authorized for the purpose and, if so required by the accommodation provider or his servant, deposited in a container fastened or sealed by the depositor; or

was offered to the accommodation provider or a servant authorized or appearing to be authorized for the purpose for deposit for safekeeping and the accommodation provider or the servant refused to receive it or, through the default of the accommodation provider or the servant, was unable to receive it.