SALE OF GOODS ACT 1972

SALE OF GOODS ACT 1972

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title  
   3.      Repeal and saving  
   4.      Savings  
   5.      Interpretation of terms  

   PART II--FORMATION OF THE CONTRACT

           Division 1--Contract of sale

   6.      Sale and agreement to sell  
   7.      Capacity to buy and sell  
   8.      Contract of sale how made  

           Division 2--Subject-matter of contract

   10.     Existing or future goods  
   11.     Goods which have perished  
   12.     Goods perishing before sale but after agreement to sell  

           Division 3--The price

   13.     Ascertainment of price  
   14.     Agreement to sell at valuation  

           Division 4--Conditions and warranties

   15.     Stipulation as to time  
   16.     When condition to be treated as warranty  
   17.     Implied understanding as to title, &c.  
   18.     Sale by description  
   19.     Implied condition as to quality or fitness  

           Division 5--Sale by sample

   20.     Sale by sample  

   PART III--EFFECTS OF THE CONTRACT

           Division 1--Transfer of property as between seller and buyer

   21.     Goods must be ascertained  
   22.     Property passes when intended to pass  
   23.     Rules for ascertaining intention  
   24.     Reservation of right of disposal  
   25.     Risk prima facie passes with property  

           Division 2--Transfer of title

   26.     Sale by person not the owner  
   27.     Sale under voidable title  
   28.     Seller or buyer in possession after sale  
   29.     Effect of writs of execution  

   PART IV--PERFORMANCE OF THE CONTRACT

   30.     Duties of seller and buyer  
   31.     Payment and delivery are concurrent conditions  
   32.     Rules as to delivery  
   33.     Delivery of wrong quantity or mixed goods  
   34.     Instalment deliveries  
   35.     Delivery to carrier  
   36.     Risk where goods are delivered at a distant place  
   37.     Buyer's right of examining the goods  
   38.     Acceptance  
   39.     Buyers not bound to return rejected goods  
   40.     Liability of buyer for neglecting or refusing delivery of goods  

   PART V--RIGHTS OF UNPAID SELLER AGAINST THE GOODS

           Division 1--General

   41.     Unpaid seller defined  
   42.     Unpaid seller's rights  

           Division 2--Unpaid seller's lien

   43.     Seller's lien  
   44.     Part delivery  
   45.     Termination of lien  

           Division 3--Stoppage in transitu

   46.     Right of stoppage in transitu  
   47.     Duration of transit  
   48.     How stoppage in transitu is effected  

           Division 4--Resale by buyer or seller

   49.     Effect of subsale or pledge by buyer  
   50.     Sale not generally rescinded by lien or stoppage in transitu  

   PART VI--ACTIONS FOR BREACH OF THE CONTRACT

           Division 1--Remedies of the Seller

   51.     Action for price  
   52.     Damages for non-acceptance  
   53.     Damages for non-delivery  

           Division 2--Remedies of the buyer

   54.     Remedy for breach of warranty  
   55.     Interest and special damages  
   56.     Saving of proceedings in equity  

   PART VII--MISCELLANEOUS

   57.     Exclusion of implied terms and conditions  
   58.     Reasonable time a question of fact  
   59.     Rights, &c., enforceable by action  
   60.     Auction sales  
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