SALE OF GOODS ACT 1895
Table of Provisions
PART A1--Preliminary
A1 Short title
A2 Interpretation
PART 1--Formation of the contract
Division 1--Contract of sale
- 1 Sale and agreement to sell
- 2 Capacity to buy and sell
Division 2--Formalities of the contract
- 3 Contract of sale, how made
Division 3--Subject matter of contract
- 5 Existing or future goods
- 6 Goods which have perished
- 7 Goods perishing before sale but after agreement to sell
Division 4--Price
- 8 Ascertainment of price
- 9 Agreement to sell at valuation
Division 5--Conditions and warranties
- 10 Stipulations as to time
- 11 When conditions to be treated as warranty
- 12 Implied undertaking as to title etc
- 13 Sale by description
- 14 Implied conditions as to quality or fitness
Division 6--Sale by sample
PART 2--Effects of the contract
Division 1--Transfer of property between seller and buyer
- 16 Goods must be ascertained
- 17 Property passes when intended to pass
- 18 Rules for ascertaining intention
- 19 Reservation of right of disposal
- 20 Risk prima facie passes with property
- 20A Contracts of sale for goods forming part of bulk
Division 2--Transfer of title
- 21 Sale by person not the owner
- 22 Market overt
- 23 Sale under voidable title
- 24 Re-vesting of property in stolen goods on conviction of offender
- 25 Seller or buyer in possession after sale
- 26 Effect of writs of execution
PART 3--Performance of the contract
- 27 Duties of seller and buyer
- 28 Payment and delivery are concurrent conditions
- 29 Rules as to delivery
- 30 Delivery of wrong quantity
- 31 Instalment deliveries
- 32 Delivery to carrier
- 33 Risk where goods are delivered at distant place
- 34 Buyer's right of examining the goods
- 35 Acceptance
- 36 Buyer not bound to return rejected goods
- 37 Liability of buyer for neglecting or refusing delivery of goods
PART 4--Rights of unpaid seller against the goods
Division 1--Unpaid seller's rights
- 38 Unpaid seller defined
- 39 Unpaid seller's rights
Division 2--Unpaid seller's lien
- 40 Seller's lien
- 41 Part delivery
- 42 Termination of lien
Division 3--Stoppage in transitu
- 43 Right of stoppage in transitu
- 44 Duration of transit
- 45 How stoppage in transitu is effected
Division 4--Re-sale by buyer or seller
- 46 Effect of sub-sale or pledge by buyer
- 47 Sale not generally rescinded by lien or stoppage in transitu
PART 5--Actions for breach of the contract
Division 1--Remedies of seller
- 48 Action for price
- 49 Damages for non-acceptance
Division 2--Remedies of buyer
- 50 Damages for non-delivery
- 51 Specific performance
- 52 Remedy for breach of warranty
- 53 Interest and special damages
PART 6--Supplementary
- 54 Exclusion of implied terms and conditions
- 55 Reasonable time a question of fact
- 56 Rights etc enforceable by action
- 57 Auction sales
- 57A Avoidance of provision for draft allowance
- 57B Avoidance of provision for draft allowance on sheep skins
- 58 Repeals
- 59 Savings
