The Sale of Goods Act, 1930 – All Sections

An Act to define and amend the law relating to the sale of goods.

The Sale of Goods Act, 1930 has 67 sections in 7 chapters, amended 5 times. Each link below opens the official text of that section. Official PDF on India Code.

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All sections of the Sale of Goods Act, 1930

Chapter I: PRELIMINARY

Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
Section 2 – Definitions
Section 3 – Application of provisions of Act 9 of 1872

Chapter II: CHAPTER II

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

Chapter III: CHAPTER III

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

Chapter IV: PERFORMANCE OF THE CONTRACT

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

Chapter V: CHAPTER V

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

Chapter VI: SUITS FOR BREACH OF THE CONTRACT

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

Chapter VII: MISCELLANEOUS