Storage Liens Act 1973
An Act to amend the law relating to warehousing of goods
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Storage Liens Act 1973.
2 Interpretation
In this Act—goods includes personal property of every description (save a motor vehicle) that may be deposited with a storer as bailee.Magistrates Court ...Magistrates Court District ...motor vehicle means a motor car, motor carriage, motor cycle, tractor or other vehicle propelled or designed to be propelled, wholly or partly by a volatile spirit, steam, gas, oil or electricity or by any means other than by human or animal power.storer means a person lawfully engaged in the business of storing goods as a bailee for reward.warehouseman ...
3 Declaration of storer’s lien
Subject to section 5, every storer shall have a lien on goods deposited with the storer for storage, whether deposited by the owner of the goods or by the owner’s authority, or by any person entrusted with the possession of the goods by the owner or by his or her authority.
4 Charges covered by lien
The lien shall be for the amount of the storer’s charges, that is to say—(a)all lawful charges for storage and preservation of the goods; and(b)all lawful claims for money advanced, interest, insurance, transportation, labour, weighing, coopering, and other expenses in relation to the goods; and(c)all reasonable charges for any notice required to be given under this Act, and for notice and advertisement of sale, and for sale of the goods where default is made in satisfying the storer’s lien.
4A Priority of storer’s lien
(1)The storer’s lien on goods—(a)is declared to be a statutory interest to which section 73(2) of the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cwlth) applies; and(b)has priority over all security interests in relation to the goods.(2)In this section—security interest has the meaning given by the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cwlth), section 12.
5 Necessity of notice by storer where goods deposited by person entrusted with possession
(1)Subject to subsection (4) the storer shall within 3 months after the date of the deposit of the goods give notice of the lien—(a)to any person who has before the expiration of 2 months after the date of the deposit of the goods served upon the storer a notice, containing the prescribed particulars, of the person’s claim to be the owner of the goods or of an interest in them or to be entitled to some charge thereon or of whose interest in them the storer has received notice as prescribed; and(b)to the grantee or (where a transfer or assignment by the grantee has been registered under the Bills of Sale and Other Instruments Act 1955, part 2) to the transferee or assignee of a bill of sale—(i)which relates to the goods; and(ii)which was granted by the person depositing the goods or by…