Section 61: Lien for rates and other charges

(1) If a person fails to pay on demand made by or on behalf of the Corporation any rate, other charges or debt due from him, the Corporation may detain any goods delivered by him or on his behalf to the Corporation or delivered to the Corporation for conveyance to him or, if such goods have been removed from the railway, any other goods of such person then being in or thereafter coming into its possession.
(2) When any goods have been detained under subsection (1) of this section, the Corporation may sell them, or any part of them, by public auction or after calling for tenders for the purchase thereof; and perishable goods may be so sold at any time, but no other goods shall be sold, until two months after the date of the demand referred to in that subsection.
(3) Out of the proceeds of such sale, the Corporation may retain a sum equal to the rate, charge or debt due as aforesaid and all expenses of such detention and sale, including in the case of animals, the expenses of the feeding, watering and tending thereof, and render the surplus, if any, and such goods, as remain unsold to the person entitled thereto.
(4) When any goods remain unsold under subsection (2) of this section, the Corporation may, by written or oral notice, require the person from whom the rate, other charge or debt was due, to remove the goods from the railway within fifteen days from the date of the notice and, if he fails to comply with such notice, the Corporation may sell the goods and dispose of the proceeds of the sale in accordance with the provisions of subsection (3) of this section.
(5) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the Corporation may recover by suit any such rate, other charge or debt due as aforesaid or the balance thereof