Section 68: Corporation not liable in certain cases

(1) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Part of this Act, the Corporation shall not be liable for any loss, damage, deviation, misdelivery, delay or detention of or to goods arising from-
(a) an act of God;
(b) an act of war or the enemies of the State;
(c) an arrest or restraint of princes or rulers, or seizure, under any legal process;
(d) orders or restrictions imposed by the Government of the Federation or of any State;
(e) an act or omission of the consignor, consignee or their servants or agents;
(f) an inherent liability to wastage in bulk or weight, latent defect or inherent defect, vice or natural deterioration of the goods;
(g) a casualty, including fire or explosion;
(h) riots, civil commotion, strikes, lock-outs, stoppage or restraint of labour from whatever cause, whether partial or general:
Provided that-
(i) in the case of goods which the Corporation has accepted for carriage at railway's risk rates or for warehousing, where such loss, damage, deviation, misdelivery or detention arises and the Corporation has failed to prove that it used all reasonable foresight and care in the carriage or (as the case may be) the warehousing of the goods, the Corporation shall not be relieved from liability for such loss, damage, deviation, misdelivery, delay or detention;
(ii) the Corporation shall not incur liability of any kind in respect of goods, where there has been fraud on the part of the consignor, consignee or their servants or agents.
(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to luggage.