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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 Sale not generally rescinded by lien or stoppage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
ENDNOTES
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