Table of Contents
Community Law Reform Program
Terms of Reference
Participants
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
I. Background and Terms of Reference
II. Residential Tenancies Act 1987
Ill. Community Consultation
IV. Need for Review of the Disposal of Uncollected Goods Act
V. Structure of Report
VI. Acknowledgements
Footnotes
CHAPTER 2: THE EXISTING LAW
I. Common Law
A. Bailment
1. Bailment for Reward
2. Gratuitous Bailment
3. Involuntary Bailment
B. Liens
C. Liens and Bailment Compared
D. Rights of Disposal
1. Agency of Necessity
2. Abandonment
II. Statutory Provisions: Disposal of Uncollected Goods Act
A. Disposal of Goods without a Court Order
B. Disposal of Goods with a Court Order
1. Application of Part III to other Forms of Bailment
2. Procedure by way of Court Order 2.28
C. Other Provisions of the Act 2.30
Footnotes
CHAPTER 3: APPLICATIONS OF THE DISPOSAL OF UNCOLLECTED GOODS ACT 1966
I. Tenancy
II. Repairers
III. Warehouses and Storage for Hire
IV. Innkeepers
V. Boarding Houses
Vi. "Inertia" Selling
VII. Pawnbrokers
VIII. "Lost" Goods
Footnotes
CHAPTER 4: EVALUATION OF THE CURRENT LAW
I. The Act is Incomplete
II. Need for a "General" Act
III. The Term "Bailment" is Unreliable
IV. Cumbersome Procedures
Footnotes
CHAPTER 5: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REFORM
I. Remedies Available to all Bailees
II. Private Agreements
III. Goods outside Bailment
IV. Public Auctions
V. Records and Surplus Payments
VI. Conclusions
A. Retention of Disposal of Uncollected Goods Act
B. Information Needs
C. Recommendations
Footnotes
