New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsCapacity to buy and sell is regulated by the general law concerning capacity
to contract and to transfer and acquire property:
Provided that where necessaries are sold and delivered to a person who, by
reason of mental incapacity or drunkenness, is incompetent to contract, the
person must pay a reasonable price therefor.
Necessaries in this section mean goods suitable to the condition in life of
such person, and to the person's actual requirements at the time of the sale
and delivery.