Western Australian Current Acts

SALE OF GOODS ACT 1895 - SECT 24

24 .         Revesting of property in stolen goods on conviction of offender

        (1)         Where goods have been stolen and the offender is prosecuted to conviction, the property in the goods so stolen revests in the person who was the owner of the goods, or his personal representative, notwithstanding any intermediate dealing with them, whether by sale in market overt or otherwise.

        (2)         Notwithstanding any enactment to the contrary, where goods have been obtained by fraud or other wrongful means not amounting to stealing, the property in such goods shall not revest in the person who was the owner of the goods, or his personal representative, by reason only of the conviction of the offender.

        [Section 24 amended: No. 57 of 1997 s. 109.]