sec.13Saving for rights of true owner

### sec.13 Saving for rights of true owner Nothing in this Act shall authorise an agent to exceed or depart from his or her authority as between himself or herself and his or her principal, or exempt the agent from any liability, civil or criminal, for so doing. Nothing in this Act shall prevent the owner of goods from recovering the goods from an agent or an agent’s trustee in bankruptcy at any time before the sale or pledge thereof, or shall prevent the owner of goods pledged by an agent from having the right to redeem the goods at any time before the sale thereof, on satisfying the claim for which the goods were pledged, and paying to the agent, if by the agent required, any money in respect of which the agent would by law be entitled to retain the goods or the documents of title thereto, or any of them, by way of lien as against the owner, or from recovering from any person with whom the goods have been pledged any balance of money remaining in the person’s hands as the produce of the sale of the goods after deducting the amount of the person’s lien. Nothing in this Act shall prevent the owner of goods sold by an agent from recovering from the buyer the price agreed to be paid for the same, or any part of that price, subject to any right of set-off on the part of the buyer against the agent. (sec.13-ssec.1) Nothing in this Act shall authorise an agent to exceed or depart from his or her authority as between himself or herself and his or her principal, or exempt the agent from any liability, civil or criminal, for so doing. (sec.13-ssec.2) Nothing in this Act shall prevent the owner of goods from recovering the goods from an agent or an agent’s trustee in bankruptcy at any time before the sale or pledge thereof, or shall prevent the owner of goods pledged by an agent from having the right to redeem the goods at any time before the sale thereof, on satisfying the claim for which the goods were pledged, and paying to the agent, if by the agent required, any money in respect of which the agent would by law be entitled to retain the goods or the documents of title thereto, or any of them, by way of lien as against the owner, or from recovering from any person with whom the goods have been pledged any balance of money remaining in the person’s hands as the produce of the sale of the goods after deducting the amount of the person’s lien. (sec.13-ssec.3) Nothing in this Act shall prevent the owner of goods sold by an agent from recovering from the buyer the price agreed to be paid for the same, or any part of that price, subject to any right of set-off on the part of the buyer against the agent.