Sale of Goods Act 1979

2020 REVISED EDITION

This revised edition incorporates all amendments up to and including 1 December 2021 and comes into operation on 31 December 2021

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

[12 November 1993]

PART 1

CONTRACTS TO WHICH ACT APPLIES

Contracts to which Act applies

1.—(1) This Act applies to contracts of sale of goods made on or after (but not to those made before) 1 January 1894.

(2) In relation to contracts made on certain dates, this Act applies subject to the modification of certain of its sections as mentioned in the Schedule.

(3) Any such modification is indicated in the section concerned by a reference to the Schedule.

(4) Accordingly, where a section does not contain such a reference, this Act applies in relation to the contract concerned without such modification of the section.

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