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TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT 71 Implied undertakings as to quality or fitness.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT 71

Implied undertakings as to quality or fitness.
71. (1) Where a corporation supplies (otherwise than by way of sale by auction
or sale by competitive tender) goods to a consumer in the course of a
business, there is an implied condition that the goods supplied under the
contract for the supply of the goods are of merchantable quality, except that
there is no such condition by virtue only of this section-

   (a)  as regards defects specifically drawn to the consumer's attention
        before the contract is made; or

   (b)  if the consumer examines the goods before the contract is made, as
        regards defects which that examination ought to reveal.

(2) Where a corporation supplies (otherwise than by way of sale by auction or
sale by competitive tender) goods to a consumer in the course of a business
and the consumer, expressly or by implication, makes known to the corporation
or to the person by whom any antecedent negotiations are conducted any
particular purpose for which the goods are being acquired, there is an implied
condition that the goods supplied under the contract for the supply of the
goods are reasonably fit for that purpose, whether or not that is a purpose
for which such goods are commonly supplied, except where the circumstances
show that the consumer does not rely, or that it is unreasonable for him to
rely, on the skill or judgment of the corporation or of that person.

(3) Sub-sections (1) and (2) apply to a contract for the supply of goods made
by a person who in the course of a business is acting as agent for a
corporation as they apply to a contract for the supply of goods made by a
corporation in the course of a business, except where that corporation is not
supplying in the course of a business and either the consumer knows that fact
or reasonable steps are taken to bring it to the notice of the consumer before
the contract is made.