147Meaning of innkeeper’s liability

147 Meaning of innkeeper’s liability (1) For this part, innkeeper’s liability is innkeeper’s liability under the common law but only in relation to the strict liability imposed on an innkeeper for failing to safeguard property of the innkeeper’s guests that is brought to the innkeeper’s inn. (2) To remove any doubt, for innkeeper’s liability, loss of a guest’s property includes damage to, or destruction of, the property. (3) For innkeeper’s liability— (a) an accommodation provider, and only an accommodation provider, is an innkeeper; and (b) traveller accommodation, and only traveller accommodation, is an inn.