Sale of Goods (Amendment) Act 1994
1994 CHAPTER 32
An Act to abolish the rule of law relating to the sale of goods in market overt.
[3rd November 1994]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Extent Information
E1 For extent of ss. 1 and 3 see s.3(4)
Commencement Information
I1Act wholly in force at 3.1.1995 see s.3(3)
1 Repeal of s. 22(1) of the Sale of Goods Act 1979.U.K.
Section 22 (1) (relating to the sale of goods in market overt) of the M1Sale of Goods Act 1979 is hereby repealed.
Marginal Citations
2 Consequential Repeals.E+W+S
(1)Section 47 of the M2Laws in Wales Act 1542 (sale of stolen goods in a fair or market in Wales) is hereby repealed.
(2)In section 7(3) of the M3Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 (protection of fisheries for shellfish), the words “sold in market overt or” shall be omitted.
3 Short title, commencement and extent.U.K.
(1)This Act may be cited as the Sale of Goods (Amendment) Act 1994.
(2)This Act shall apply to any contract for sale of goods which is made after this Act comes into force.
(3)This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which it is passed.
(4)Section 1 and this section extend to Northern Ireland.