Subject to the provisions of this Act or any regulations or of any contract, the Authority is not liable for the loss, misdelivery or detention of or damage to goods—
(a) delivered to or in the possession of the Authority, otherwise than for the purposes of carriage and warehousing except where such loss, misdelivery, detention or damage is caused by want of reasonable foresight and care on the part of any person employed by or on behalf of the Authority;
(b) accepted by the Authority for carriage or warehousing where such loss, misdelivery, detention or damage occurs otherwise than while the goods are intransit or being warehoused and is not caused by the want of reasonable foresight and care on the part of any person employed by or on behalf of the Authority.
However, the Authority shall in no case be liable for such loss, misdelivery, detention or damage arising from—
(i) act of God,
(ii) act of war or the Queen's enemies,
(iii) arrest or restraint of princes or rulers, or seizure under legal process,
(iv) act or omission of the consignor, consignee, or depositor, or of the servant or agent of any such person,
(v) fire, flood, tempest, riots, civil commotion, strikes, lockouts, stoppage or restraint of labour from whatever cause, whether partial or general,
(vi) inherent liability to wastage in bulk or weight, latent or inherent defect, vice or natural deterioration or vermin,
(vii) deficiency in the contents of unbroken packages,
(viii) unprotected cargo, insufficiency or improper packing or leakage from defective drums, containers or packages.
Further, where such loss, misdelivery, detention or damage occurs in relation to goods accepted by the Authority for carriage or for warehousing the limitation contained in section 37 shall apply. Any claim in respect of a single package shall not exceed $1,000.