Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

SALE OF GOODS ACT 1954

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act  
   2.      Dictionary  
   3.      Notes  
   4.      Key concepts  

   PART 2--FORMATION OF THE CONTRACT

           Division 2.1--Contract of sale

   6.      Sale and agreement to sell  
   7.      Capacity to buy and sell  

           Division 2.2--Formalities of contract

   8.      Manners of making contracts of sale  

           Division 2.3--Subject matter of contract

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

           Division 2.4--The price

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

           Division 2.5--Conditions and warranties

   15.     Stipulations as to time  
   16.     When condition to be treated as warranty  
   17.     Implied undertaking as to title  
   18.     Sale by description  
   19.     Implied conditions as to quality and fitness  

           Division 2.6--Sale by sample

   20.     Sale by sample  

   PART 3--EFFECTS OF THE CONTRACT

           Division 3.1--Transfer of property between seller and buyer

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

           Division 3.2--Transfer of title

   26.     Sale by person not the owner  
   27.     Resale under voidable title  
   28.     Revesting of property in stolen goods on conviction of offender  
   29.     Seller or buyer in possession after sale  
   30.     Effects of writs of execution  

   PART 4--PERFORMANCE OF THE CONTRACT

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

   PART 5--RIGHTS OF UNPAID SELLER AGAINST THE GOODS

           Division 5.1--General

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

           Division 5.2--Unpaid seller's lien

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

           Division 5.3--Stoppage in transitu

   47.     Right of stoppage in transitu  
   48.     Duration of transit  
   49.     Method of effecting stoppage in transitu  

           Division 5.4--Resale by buyer or seller

   50.     Effect of sub-sale or pledge by buyer  
   51.     Sale not generally rescinded by lien or stoppage  

   PART 6--ACTIONS FOR BREACH OF THE CONTRACT

           Division 6.1--Remedies of seller

   52.     Action for price  
   53.     Damages for nonacceptance  

           Division 6.2--Remedies of buyer

   54.     Damages for nondelivery  
   55.     Specific performance  
   56.     Remedy for breach of warranty  
   57.     Interest and special damages  

   PART 7--MISCELLANEOUS

   59.     Rights etc enforceable by action  
   60.     Auction sales  
   61.     Draft allowance on wool  
   62.     Savings  
           DICTIONARY
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