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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Sale of Goods Act 1979 (c. 54)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

There are effects on this legislation that have not yet been applied to SLD for the following years: 2007 and 2008. See the Tables of Legislative effects and the Update status of legislation page on the SLD website.

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Sale of Goods Act 1979

1979 CHAPTER 54

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    Contracts to Which Act Applies

    1. 1. Contracts to which Act applies

  2. Part II

    Formation of the Contract

    1. Contract of sale

      1. 2. Contract of sale

      2. 3. Capacity to buy and sell

    2. Formalities of contract

      1. 4. How contract of sale is made

    3. Subject matter of contract

      1. 5. Existing or future goods

      2. 6. Goods which have perished

      3. 7. Goods perishing before sale but after agreement to sell

    4. The price

      1. 8. Ascertainment of price

      2. 9. Agreement to sell at valuation

    5. Implied terms etc

      1. 10. Stipulations about time

      2. 11. When condition to be treated as warranty

      3. 12. Implied terms about title, etc

      4. 13. Sale by description

      5. 14. Implied terms about quality or fitness

    6. Sale by sample

      1. 15. Sale by sample

    7. Miscellaneous

      1. 15A. Modification of remedies for breach of condition in non-consumer cases

      2. 15B. Remedies for breach of contract as respects Scotland

  3. Part III

    Effects of the Contract

    1. Transfer of property as between seller and buyer

      1. 16. Goods must be ascertained

      2. 17. Property passes when intended to pass

      3. 18. Rules for ascertaining intention

      4. 19. Reservation of right of disposal

      5. 20. Passing of risk

      6. 20A. Undivided shares in goods forming part of a bulk

      7. 20B. Deemed consent by co-owner to dealings in bulk goods

    2. Transfer of title

      1. 21. Sale by person not the owner

      2. 22. Market overt

      3. 23. Sale under voidable title

      4. 24. Seller in possession after sale

      5. 25. Buyer in possession after sale

      6. 26. Supplementary to sections 24 and 25

  4. Part IV

    Performance of the Contract

    1. 27. Duties of seller and buyer

    2. 28. Payment and delivery are concurrent conditions

    3. 29. Rules about delivery

    4. 30. Delivery of wrong quantity

    5. 31. Instalment deliveries

    6. 32. Delivery to carrier

    7. 33. Risk where goods are delivered at distant place

    8. 34. Buyer’s right of examining the goods

    9. 35. Acceptance

    10. 35A. Right of partial rejection

    11. 36. Buyer not bound to return rejected goods

    12. 37. Buyer’s liability for not taking delivery of goods

  5. Part V

    Rights of Unpaid Seller Against the Goods

    1. Preliminary

      1. 38. Unpaid seller defined

      2. 39. Unpaid seller’s rights

      3. 40. Attachment by seller in Scotland

    2. Unpaid seller’s lien

      1. 41. Seller’s lien

      2. 42. Part delivery

      3. 43. Termination of lien

    3. Stoppage in transit

      1. 44. Right of stoppage in transit

      2. 45. Duration of transit

      3. 46. How stoppage in transit is effected

    4. Re-sale etc. by buyer

      1. 47. Effect of sub-sale etc. by buyer

    5. Rescission: and re-sale by seller

      1. 48. Rescission: and re-sale by seller

  6. PART 5A

    ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF BUYER IN CONSUMER CASES

    1. 48A.Introductory

    2. 48B.Repair or replacement of the goods

    3. 48C.Reduction of purchase price or rescission of contract

    4. 48D.Relation to other remedies etc

    5. 48E.Powers of the court

    6. 48F.Conformity with the contract

  7. Part VI

    Actions for Breach of the Contract

    1. Seller’s remedies

      1. 49. Action for price

      2. 50. Damages for non-acceptance

    2. Buyer’s remedies

      1. 51. Damages for non-delivery

      2. 52. Specific performance

      3. 53. Remedy for breach of warranty

      4. 53A. Measure of damages as respects Scotland

    3. Interest, etc

      1. 54. Interest, etc

  8. Part VII

    Supplementary

    1. 55. Exclusion of implied terms

    2. 56. Conflict of laws

    3. 57. Auction sales

    4. 58. Payment into court in Scotland

    5. 59. Reasonable time a question of fact

    6. 60. Rights etc. enforceable by action

    7. 61. Interpretation

    8. 62. Savings: rules of law etc

    9. 63. Consequential amendments, repeals and savings

    10. 64. Short title and commencement

  9. SCHEDULE 1

    Modification of Act for Certain Contracts

  10. SCHEDULE 2

    Consequential Amendments

  11. SCHEDULE 3

    Repeals

  12. SCHEDULE 4

    Savings

An Act to consolidate the law relating to the sale of goods.

[6th December 1979]

Annotations:

Commencement Information

I1Act wholly in force at 1.1.1980, see s. 64(2)

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