Legislature of British India 15 March 1930, Act 3 of 1930 (The Sale of Goods Act, 1930)

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India · · · 15-03-1930

Section 1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 2. Definitions.
Section 3. Application of provisions of Act 9 of 1872.
Section 4. Sale and agreement to sell.
Section 5. Contract of sale how made.
Section 6. Existing or future goods.
Section 7. Goods perishing before making of contract.
Section 8. Goods perishing before sale but after agreement to sell.
Section 9. Ascertainment of price.
Section 10. Agreement to sell at valuation.
Section 11. Stipulations as to time.
Section 12. Condition and warranty.
Section 13. When condition to be treated as warranty.
Section 14. Implied undertaking as to title, etc.
Section 15. Sale by description.
Section 16. Implied conditions as to quality or fitness.
Section 17. Sale by sample.
Section 18. Goods must be ascertained.
Section 19. Property passes when intended to pass.
Section 20. Specific goods in a deliverable state.
Section 21. Specific goods to be put into a deliverable state.
Section 22. Specific goods in a deliverable state, when the seller has to do anything thereto in order to ascertain price.
Section 23. Sale of unascertained goods and appropriation.
Section 24. Goods sent on approval or “on sale or return”.
Section 25. Reservation of right of disposal.
Section 26. Risk prima facie passes with property.
Section 27. Sale by person not the owner.
Section 28. Sale by one of joint owners.
Section 29. Sale by person in possession under voidable contract.
Section 30. Seller or buyer in possession after sale.
Section 31. Duties of seller and buyer.
Section 32. Payment and delivery are concurrent conditions.
Section 33. Delivery.
Section 34. Effect of part delivery.
Section 35. Buyer to apply for delivery.
Section 36. Rules as to delivery.
Section 37. Delivery of wrong quantity.
Section 38. Instalment deliveries.
Section 39. Delivery to carrier or wharfinger.
Section 40. Risk where goods are delivered at distant place.
Section 41. Buyer’s right of examining the goods.
Section 42. Acceptance.
Section 43. Buyer not bound to return rejected goods.
Section 44. Liability of buyer for neglecting or refusing delivery of goods.
Section 45. “Unpaid seller” defined.
Section 46. Unpaid seller’s rights.
Section 47. Seller’s lien.
Section 48. Part delivery.
Section 49. Termination of lien.
Section 50. Right of stoppage in transit.
Section 51. Duration of transit.
Section 52. How stoppage in transit is effected.
Section 53. Effect of sub-sale or pledge by buyer.
Section 54. Sale not generally rescinded by lien or stoppage in transit.
Section 55. Suit for price.
Section 56. Damages for non-acceptance.
Section 57. Damages for non-delivery.
Section 58. Specific performance.
Section 59. Remedy for breach of warranty.
Section 60. Repudiation of contract before due date.
Section 61. Interest by way of damages and special damages.
Section 62. Exclusion of implied terms and conditions.
Section 63. Reasonable time a question of fact.
Section 64. Auction sale.
Section 64A. In contracts of sale, amount of increased or decreased taxes to be added or deducted.
Section 65. [Repealed.].
Section 66. Savings.

Section 1. Short title, extent and commencement.

(1) This Act may be called the ¹*** Sale of Goods Act, 1930.
²[(2) It extends to the whole of India ³***.]
(3) It shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1930.

¹. The word "Indian" omitted by Act 33 of 1963, s. 2 (w.e.f. 22-9-1963).
². Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for sub-section (2).
³. The words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by Act 34 of 2019, s. 95 and the Fifth Schedule (w.e.f.

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