INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(88, 'SALE OF GOODS ACT, 1962 (ACT 137)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1354" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SALE</span><span style="font-family: Arial"> \r\n                                              OF GOODS ACT, 1962 (ACT 137)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;NATURE AND FORMATION OF THE \r\n                                              CONTRACT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1.&nbsp; Contract of sale.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2.&nbsp; Capacity to buy and sell.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3.&nbsp; Contract of sale, how made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4.&nbsp; Auction sales.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5.&nbsp; Specific and unascertained \r\n                                              goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6.&nbsp; The price.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7.&nbsp; Agreement to sell at \r\n                                              valuation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II &#8212; DUTIES OF THE SELLER</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fundamental Obligation of the \r\n                                              Seller</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8.&nbsp; Fundamental obligation of the \r\n                                              seller.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Existence of the Goods</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Implied condition that specific \r\n                                              goods are in existence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Undertakings as to Title</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10.&nbsp; Implied undertakings as to \r\n                                              title.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Quality and Quantity of the Goods</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11.&nbsp; Sale by description.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12.&nbsp; Sale by sample.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13.&nbsp; Quality and fitness of the \r\n                                              goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14.&nbsp; Quantity of goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Delivery of the Goods</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15.&nbsp; Delivery concurrent with \r\n                                              payment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16.&nbsp; Time of delivery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17.&nbsp; Cost of putting goods into \r\n                                              deliverable state.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18.&nbsp; Means of delivery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19.&nbsp; Place of delivery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20.&nbsp; Despatch of goods by carrier.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III &#8212; DUTIES OF THE BUYER</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21.&nbsp; Fundamental obligations of \r\n                                              the buyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22.&nbsp; Payment concurrent with \r\n                                              delivery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23.&nbsp; Time of payment and accepting \r\n                                              delivery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24.&nbsp; Buyer not bound to accept \r\n                                              delivery by instalments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV &#8212;TRANSFER OF PROPERTY AND \r\n                                              RISK</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Transfer of Property</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25.&nbsp;&nbsp; Goods must be ascertained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26.&nbsp;&nbsp; When property passes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Transfer of Risk</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27.&nbsp;&nbsp; Transfer of risk.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Transfer of Property by a \r\n                                              Non-owner</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28.&nbsp;&nbsp; Non-owner cannot generally \r\n                                              pass good title.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29.&nbsp;&nbsp; Disposition under voidable \r\n                                              title.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              30.&nbsp;&nbsp; Disposition by mercantile \r\n                                              agent in possession of goods, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              31.&nbsp;&nbsp; Disposition by seller in \r\n                                              possession.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              32.&nbsp;&nbsp; Disposition by buyer in \r\n                                              possession.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              33.&nbsp;&nbsp; Provisions relating to \r\n                                              notice of ownership.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212; REMEDIES OF THE SELLER</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Real Rights of Seller</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              34.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Unpaid seller defined.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              35.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Unpaid seller''s rights.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Lien</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              36.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Seller''s lien.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              37.&nbsp;&nbsp; Termination of lien.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Stoppage in Transit</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              38.&nbsp;&nbsp; Stoppage in transit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              39.&nbsp;&nbsp; Duration of transit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40.&nbsp;&nbsp; How stoppage in transit is \r\n                                              effected.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              41.&nbsp;&nbsp; Position as between seller \r\n                                              and carrier.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              42.&nbsp;&nbsp; Stoppage over goods lost or \r\n                                              damaged.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              43.&nbsp;&nbsp; Effect of resale or other \r\n                                              disposition by buyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Recovery of Possession from Buyer</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              44.&nbsp;&nbsp; Seller''s right to recover \r\n                                              possession after delivery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Resale</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              45.&nbsp;&nbsp; Resale by seller.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Personal Rights of the Seller</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              46.&nbsp;&nbsp; Action for price.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              47.&nbsp;&nbsp; Damages for non-acceptance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              48.&nbsp;&nbsp; Assessment of damages.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;REMEDIES OF THE BUYER</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Rejection of the Goods</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              49.&nbsp;&nbsp; When buyer has right to \r\n                                              reject.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              50.&nbsp;&nbsp; Effect of rejection.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              51.&nbsp;&nbsp; No rejection after \r\n                                              acceptance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              52.&nbsp;&nbsp; Acceptance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Personal Rights of the Buyer</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              53.&nbsp;&nbsp; Damages for non-delivery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              54.&nbsp;&nbsp; Assessment of damages for \r\n                                              non-delivery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              55.&nbsp;&nbsp; Damages for breach of \r\n                                              condition or warranty.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              56.&nbsp;&nbsp; Assessment of damages under \r\n                                              section 55.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              57.&nbsp;&nbsp; No forfeiture of sums paid \r\n                                              by buyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              58.&nbsp;&nbsp; Specific performance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VII&#8212;C.I.F. AND F.O.B. SALES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              59.&nbsp;&nbsp; Parts I to VI to be read \r\n                                              subject to this Part.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              60.&nbsp;&nbsp; Export and import licences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              61.&nbsp;&nbsp; C.I.F. contracts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              62.&nbsp;&nbsp; F.O.B. contracts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              63.&nbsp;&nbsp; Payment of price by bankers'' \r\n                                              commercial credit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              64.&nbsp;&nbsp; Meaning of proper shipping \r\n                                              documents.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              65.&nbsp;&nbsp; Duties under this Part to be \r\n                                              construed as conditions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VIII &#8212; HIRE-PURCHASE \r\n                                              CONTRACTS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              66.&nbsp; Formalities relating to \r\n                                              hire-purchase contracts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              67. Provision in hire-purchase \r\n                                              contract authorising seller to \r\n                                              enter buyer''s premises to be void.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              68. Special provisions as to \r\n                                              determination of hire-purchase \r\n                                              contracts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              69. Restriction on seller''s right \r\n                                              to recover possession in \r\n                                              hire-purchase contracts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              70. Powers of court in action by \r\n                                              seller under hire-purchase \r\n                                              contract.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              71. Effect of postponement of \r\n                                              operation of an order for specific \r\n                                              delivery of goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              72.&nbsp;&nbsp; Assignments contrary to \r\n                                              contract.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              73.&nbsp;&nbsp; Duty of seller to supply \r\n                                              documents and information.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              74.&nbsp;&nbsp; Regulations as to \r\n                                              hire-purchase contracts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              75.&nbsp;&nbsp; Application of Part VIII.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IX &#8212; MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              76.&nbsp;&nbsp; Variation of rights, duties \r\n                                              and liabilities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              77.&nbsp;&nbsp; Reasonable time a question \r\n                                              of fact.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              78.&nbsp;&nbsp; Application of the Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              79.&nbsp;&nbsp; Act to bind the Republic.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              80.&nbsp;&nbsp; Savings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              81.&nbsp; Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              82.&nbsp; Repeal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              83.&nbsp; Statutes ceasing to apply.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              84.&nbsp; Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              First Schedule&#8212;Notice to be \r\n                                              included in Note or Memorandum of \r\n                                              Hire-purchase Agreement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Second Schedule&#8212;Statutes ceasing \r\n                                              to apply.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVENTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SALE OF GOODS ACT, 1962</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to codify with amendments \r\n                                              the law relating to the sale and \r\n                                              hire purchase of goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 11th July, 1962</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;NATURE AND FORMATION OF THE \r\n                                              CONTRACT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Contract of Sale.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A contract of sale of goods is \r\n                                              a contract whereby the seller \r\n                                              agrees to transfer the property in \r\n                                              goods to the buyer for a \r\n                                              consideration called the price, \r\n                                              consisting wholly or partly of \r\n                                              money.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; Where, by virtue of one or \r\n                                              more contracts, a person has \r\n                                              agreed for value to bail goods to \r\n                                              a bailee on such terms that the \r\n                                              property in the goods will or may \r\n                                              at the option of the bailee pass \r\n                                              to the bailee then, for the \r\n                                              purposes of this Act, that person \r\n                                              is deemed to have agreed to \r\n                                              transfer the property in the goods \r\n                                              to the bailee, and the bailor \r\n                                              shall be deemed to be the seller \r\n                                              and the bailee shall be deemed to \r\n                                              be the buyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) There may be a contract of \r\n                                              sale between one part owner and \r\n                                              another.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4)&nbsp; A contract of sale may be \r\n                                              absolute or conditional.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Capacity to Buy and \r\n                                              Sell.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Capacity to buy and sell is \r\n                                              regulated by the general law \r\n                                              concerning capacity to contract \r\n                                              and to transfer and acquire \r\n                                              property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where necessaries are \r\n                                              delivered to a person under an \r\n                                              agreement which is void because of \r\n                                              that person''s incapacity to \r\n                                              contract he shall be bound to pay \r\n                                              a reasonable price therefor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Necessaries in this section \r\n                                              means goods suitable to the \r\n                                              condition in life of the person to \r\n                                              whom they are delivered and to his \r\n                                              actual requirements at the time of \r\n                                              delivery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Contract of Sale, how \r\n                                              made.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act and subject to any other \r\n                                              enactment a contract of sale of \r\n                                              goods may be made in writing or by \r\n                                              word of mouth or partly in writing \r\n                                              and partly by word of mouth, or \r\n                                              may be implied from the conduct of \r\n                                              the parties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Auction Sales.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; In the case of a sale by \r\n                                              auction &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) where goods are put up for \r\n                                              sale in lots each lot is prima \r\n                                              facie deemed to be the subject of \r\n                                              a separate contract of sale;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the sale is complete when the \r\n                                              auctioneer announces its \r\n                                              completion by the fall of the \r\n                                              hammer or in other customary \r\n                                              manner;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) until such announcement is \r\n                                              made any bidder may retract his \r\n                                              bid and, subject to paragraph (d), \r\n                                              the seller may withdraw the goods;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) where the sale is expressed to \r\n                                              be without reserve the highest \r\n                                              bona fide bidder shall be entitled \r\n                                              to buy the goods at the price bid \r\n                                              notwithstanding that the \r\n                                              auctioneer refuses to accept his \r\n                                              bid or to complete the sale;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) the seller or any one person \r\n                                              on his behalf may bid if a right \r\n                                              to bid is expressly reserved, but, \r\n                                              subject to paragraph (f), not \r\n                                              otherwise;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) where the sale is notified to \r\n                                              be subject to a reserve price it \r\n                                              shall be lawful for the seller or \r\n                                              any person on his behalf to make \r\n                                              one bid and no more; and such bid \r\n                                              shall be openly declared at the \r\n                                              auction before any other bid is \r\n                                              received.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where there is a breach of any \r\n                                              of the provisions of paragraph (e) \r\n                                              or (f) of subsection (1) the buyer \r\n                                              may treat the sale as fraudulent.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Specific and \r\n                                              Unascertained Goods.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The goods which form the \r\n                                              subject of a contract of sale may \r\n                                              be either specific goods, \r\n                                              identified and agreed upon before \r\n                                              or at the time when the contract \r\n                                              is made, or unascertained goods \r\n                                              not being so identified and agreed \r\n                                              upon.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) There may be a sale of goods \r\n                                              to be manufactured or grown or \r\n                                              acquired by the seller after the \r\n                                              making of the contract.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) There may be a sale of goods \r\n                                              the acquisition of which by the \r\n                                              seller depends upon a contingency \r\n                                              which may or may not happen.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;The Price.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The price in a contract of \r\n                                              sale may be fixed by the contract \r\n                                              or may be left to be fixed in \r\n                                              manner thereby agreed, or may be \r\n                                              determined by the course of \r\n                                              dealing between the parties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the price is not \r\n                                              determined in accordance with the \r\n                                              foregoing provisions the buyer \r\n                                              must pay a reasonable price. What \r\n                                              is a reasonable price is a \r\n                                              question of fact dependent on the \r\n                                              circumstances of each particular \r\n                                              case.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Agreement to Sell at \r\n                                              Valuation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where there is an agreement to \r\n                                              sell goods on the terms that the \r\n                                              price is to be fixed by the \r\n                                              valuation of a third party, and \r\n                                              the third party cannot or does not \r\n                                              make such a valuation, the \r\n                                              agreement is avoided.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the third party is \r\n                                              prevented from making the \r\n                                              valuation by the fault of the \r\n                                              seller or buyer the party not in \r\n                                              fault may maintain an action for \r\n                                              damages against the party in \r\n                                              fault.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;DUTIES OF THE SELLER</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fundamental Obligation of the \r\n                                              Seller</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Fundamental Obligation \r\n                                              of the Seller.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; In a sale of specific goods \r\n                                              the fundamental obligation of the \r\n                                              seller is to deliver those goods \r\n                                              to the buyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In a sale of unascertained \r\n                                              goods the fundamental obligation \r\n                                              of the seller is to deliver to the \r\n                                              buyer goods substantially \r\n                                              corresponding to the description \r\n                                              or sample by which they were sold.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any provision in a contract of \r\n                                              sale which is inconsistent with, \r\n                                              or repugnant to, the fundamental \r\n                                              obligation of the seller, is void \r\n                                              to the extent of the inconsistency \r\n                                              or repugnance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Existence of the Goods</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Implied Condition that \r\n                                              Specific Goods are in Existence.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In a contract for the sale of \r\n                                              specific goods there is an implied \r\n                                              condition on the part of the \r\n                                              seller that the goods are in \r\n                                              existence at the time when the \r\n                                              contract is made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Undertakings as to Title</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Implied Undertakings as \r\n                                              to Title.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; In a contract of sale there \r\n                                              is an implied warranty on the part \r\n                                              of the seller that he will have a \r\n                                              right to sell the goods at the \r\n                                              time when the property is to pass.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; The provisions of subsection \r\n                                              (1) are not affected by any \r\n                                              agreement to the contrary where \r\n                                              the goods are of a description \r\n                                              which are supplied by the seller \r\n                                              in the ordinary course of his \r\n                                              business.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Quality and Quantity of the Goods</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Sale by Description.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In a contract for the sale of \r\n                                              goods by description whether or \r\n                                              not the sale is by sample as well \r\n                                              as by description, there is an \r\n                                              implied condition that the goods \r\n                                              shall correspond exactly with the \r\n                                              description.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Sale by Sample.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In a contract for the sale of \r\n                                              goods by sample, whether or not \r\n                                              the sale is by description as well \r\n                                              as by sample there is an implied \r\n                                              condition that the goods shall \r\n                                              correspond exactly with the \r\n                                              sample.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Quality and Fitness of \r\n                                              Goods.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act and any other enactment \r\n                                              there is no implied warranty or \r\n                                              condition as to the quality or \r\n                                              fitness for any particular purpose \r\n                                              of goods supplied under a contract \r\n                                              of sale except as follows&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) There is an implied condition \r\n                                              that the goods are free from \r\n                                              defects which are not declared or \r\n                                              known to the buyer before or at \r\n                                              the time when the contract is \r\n                                              made:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that there is no such \r\n                                              implied condition&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              where the buyer has examined the \r\n                                              goods, in respect of defects which \r\n                                              should have been revealed by the \r\n                                              examination;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) in the case of a sale by \r\n                                              sample, in respect of defects \r\n                                              which could have been discovered \r\n                                              by a reasonable examination of the \r\n                                              sample;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) where the goods are not sold \r\n                                              by the seller in the ordinary \r\n                                              course of his business, in respect \r\n                                              of defects of which the seller was \r\n                                              not, and could not reasonably have \r\n                                              been aware.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) Where the goods are of a \r\n                                              description which are supplied by \r\n                                              the seller in the course of his \r\n                                              business and the buyer expressly \r\n                                              or by implication makes known the \r\n                                              purpose for which the goods are \r\n                                              required there is an implied \r\n                                              condition that the goods are \r\n                                              reasonably fit for that purpose.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The condition implied by \r\n                                              paragraph (a) of subsection (1) is \r\n                                              not affected by any provision to \r\n                                              the contrary in the agreement \r\n                                              where the goods are of a \r\n                                              description which are supplied by \r\n                                              the seller in the ordinary course \r\n                                              of his business and the condition \r\n                                              implied by paragraph (b) of \r\n                                              subsection (1) is not affected by \r\n                                              any provision to the contrary in \r\n                                              the agreement unless the seller \r\n                                              proves that before the contract \r\n                                              was made the provision was brought \r\n                                              to the notice of the buyer and its \r\n                                              effect made clear to him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) An implied warranty or \r\n                                              condition as to quality or fitness \r\n                                              for a particular purpose may be \r\n                                              annexed by the usage of trade.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) An express warranty or \r\n                                              condition does not negative a \r\n                                              warranty or condition implied by \r\n                                              this Act unless inconsistent \r\n                                              therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The provisions of this section \r\n                                              apply to all goods delivered in \r\n                                              purported pursuance of the \r\n                                              contract and extend to all boxes, \r\n                                              tins, bottles or other containers \r\n                                              in which the goods are contained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Quantity of Goods.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where the seller delivers to \r\n                                              the buyer a quantity of goods less \r\n                                              than he contracted to sell the \r\n                                              buyer may reject them but if he \r\n                                              accepts the goods so delivered he \r\n                                              must pay for them at the contract \r\n                                              rate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the seller delivers to \r\n                                              the buyer a quantity of goods \r\n                                              larger than he contracted to sell \r\n                                              the buyer may not reject all the \r\n                                              goods delivered by reason only of \r\n                                              the excess in quantity but he may \r\n                                              accept all the goods so delivered, \r\n                                              paying for the extra goods at the \r\n                                              contract rate, or he may accept \r\n                                              the goods which should have been \r\n                                              delivered and reject the \r\n                                              remainder. In the latter event the \r\n                                              buyer may recover damages from the \r\n                                              seller representing the cost, if \r\n                                              any, of separating the goods which \r\n                                              should have been delivered from \r\n                                              the remainder.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the seller delivers to \r\n                                              the buyer the goods he contracted \r\n                                              to sell together with goods of a \r\n                                              different description not included \r\n                                              in the contract&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the buyer may accept all the \r\n                                              goods so delivered, paying a \r\n                                              reasonable price for the extra \r\n                                              goods; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) if the goods which the seller \r\n                                              contracted to sell and has \r\n                                              delivered are less than the \r\n                                              quantity specified in the \r\n                                              contract, the buyer may reject the \r\n                                              whole; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; the buyer may accept the \r\n                                              goods included in the contract and \r\n                                              reject the remainder. In this \r\n                                              event the buyer may recover \r\n                                              damages from the seller \r\n                                              representing the cost (if any) of \r\n                                              separating the goods included in \r\n                                              the contract from the remainder, \r\n                                              and also damages (if any) in \r\n                                              respect of the deficiency (if any) \r\n                                              in the goods delivered.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Delivery of the Goods</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Delivery Concurrent \r\n                                              with Payment.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Unless otherwise agreed the \r\n                                              seller must be ready and willing \r\n                                              to deliver the goods in exchange \r\n                                              for the price.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Tender of delivery may be \r\n                                              treated as ineffectual unless made \r\n                                              at a reasonable hour.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Time of Delivery.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If no time is fixed for the \r\n                                              delivery of the goods, they must \r\n                                              be delivered within a reasonable \r\n                                              time.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Unless a contrary intention \r\n                                              appears stipulations as to the \r\n                                              time of delivery are conditions of \r\n                                              a contract of sale.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The parties to a contract of \r\n                                              sale may, whether with or without \r\n                                              consideration, agree that delivery \r\n                                              should be made at a date or time \r\n                                              other than that stipulated for in \r\n                                              the contract, and in this event, \r\n                                              the seller is bound to deliver and \r\n                                              the buyer is bound to accept \r\n                                              delivery of, the goods at that \r\n                                              date or time unless the parties \r\n                                              agree to any further change.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where the buyer agrees to \r\n                                              accept delivery from the seller at \r\n                                              a date later than stipulated in \r\n                                              the contract without substituting \r\n                                              another date therefor the seller \r\n                                              must deliver the goods within a \r\n                                              reasonable time, having regard in \r\n                                              particular to the reasons for \r\n                                              which delivery was postponed, and \r\n                                              the buyer may, on reasonable \r\n                                              notice to the seller, notify him \r\n                                              of the latest date on which \r\n                                              delivery will be accepted.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where the seller contracts to \r\n                                              use his best endeavours to deliver \r\n                                              the goods on, or not later than, a \r\n                                              given date the seller must, unless \r\n                                              a contrary intention appears (but \r\n                                              without prejudice to his \r\n                                              obligations so to use his best \r\n                                              endeavours), deliver the goods \r\n                                              within a reasonable time after \r\n                                              that date.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Cost of Putting Goods \r\n                                              into Deliverable State.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Unless otherwise agreed, the \r\n                                              expenses of and incidental to, \r\n                                              putting the goods into a \r\n                                              deliverable state must be borne by \r\n                                              the seller.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Means of Delivery.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Unless otherwise agreed the \r\n                                              seller may deliver the goods to \r\n                                              the buyer by&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) transferring to him the actual \r\n                                              physical control over the goods; \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) transferring to him the means \r\n                                              of obtaining actual physical \r\n                                              control over the goods; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) transferring to him documents \r\n                                              of title to the goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Unless a contrary intention \r\n                                              appears, delivery of the goods to \r\n                                              the buyer''s agent or to his order \r\n                                              is a delivery to the buyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Unless a contrary intention \r\n                                              appears, delivery of the goods to \r\n                                              a carrier, pursuant to, or \r\n                                              consequent upon a contract of \r\n                                              sale, for transmission to the \r\n                                              buyer is a delivery to him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where the goods are in the \r\n                                              possession of a third party they \r\n                                              are delivered to the buyer when \r\n                                              the third party acknowledges to \r\n                                              him that he holds the goods on his \r\n                                              behalf.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that nothing in this \r\n                                              subsection affects the operation \r\n                                              of the delivery of any document of \r\n                                              title.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Place of Delivery.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Unless a contrary intention \r\n                                              appears the place of delivery is \r\n                                              the seller''s place of business, if \r\n                                              he has one, and if not, his \r\n                                              residence:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that in a contract for \r\n                                              the sale of specific goods which \r\n                                              to the knowledge of the parties \r\n                                              when the contract is made are in \r\n                                              some other place, then subject to \r\n                                              any contrary intention that place \r\n                                              is the place of delivery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Despatch of Goods by \r\n                                              Carrier.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where, in pursuance of a \r\n                                              contract of sale the seller is \r\n                                              authorised or required to send the \r\n                                              goods to the buyer by a carrier, \r\n                                              there is an implied condition that \r\n                                              the seller shall make such \r\n                                              contract with the carrier on \r\n                                              behalf of the buyer as may be \r\n                                              reasonable having regard to all \r\n                                              the circumstances of the case.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Unless otherwise agreed where \r\n                                              goods are sent by the seller to \r\n                                              the buyer by a route involving sea \r\n                                              or air transit in circumstances in \r\n                                              which it is usual to insure, the \r\n                                              seller must give such notice (if \r\n                                              any) as may be required by the \r\n                                              buyer to enable him to insure them \r\n                                              during the sea or air transit, and \r\n                                              if the seller fails to do so the \r\n                                              goods shall be at his risk during \r\n                                              such transit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;DUTIES OF THE BUYER</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 21&#8212;Fundamental Obligations \r\n                                              of the Buyer.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The fundamental obligations of the \r\n                                              buyer in a contract of sale are to \r\n                                              pay the price and accept delivery \r\n                                              of the goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 22&#8212;Payment Concurrent with \r\n                                              Delivery.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Unless otherwise agreed the buyer \r\n                                              must be ready and willing to pay \r\n                                              the price in exchange for delivery \r\n                                              of the goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Time of Payment and \r\n                                              Accepting Delivery.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Unless otherwise agreed \r\n                                              stipulations as to the time of \r\n                                              payment or as to the time for \r\n                                              accepting delivery are not \r\n                                              conditions of a contract of sale.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 24&#8212;Buyer not Bound to \r\n                                              Accept Delivery by Instalments.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Unless otherwise agreed the buyer \r\n                                              is not bound to accept delivery of \r\n                                              the goods by instalments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;TRANSFER OF PROPERTY AND \r\n                                              RISK</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Transfer of Property</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 25&#8212;Goods Must be \r\n                                              Ascertained.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where there is a contract for the \r\n                                              sale of unascertained goods no \r\n                                              property in the goods is \r\n                                              transferred to the buyer unless \r\n                                              and until the goods are \r\n                                              ascertained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 26&#8212;When Property Passes.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to section 25 of this \r\n                                              Act, the property in goods passes \r\n                                              under a contract of sale when the \r\n                                              parties intend it to pass.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Unless a different intention \r\n                                              appears the property in the goods \r\n                                              passes under a contract of sale \r\n                                              when they are delivered to the \r\n                                              buyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where goods are delivered to \r\n                                              the buyer on approval or &quot;on sale \r\n                                              or return&quot; or other similar terms, \r\n                                              then,&nbsp; in the absence of a \r\n                                              contrary intention, the property \r\n                                              therein passes to the buyer&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) when he signifies his approval \r\n                                              or acceptance to the seller or&nbsp; \r\n                                              does any other act adopting the \r\n                                              transaction;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) if he does not signify his \r\n                                              approval or acceptance to the \r\n                                              seller but retains the goods \r\n                                              without giving notice of \r\n                                              rejection, then, if a time has \r\n                                              been fixed for the return of the \r\n                                              goods, on the expiration of such \r\n                                              time, and if no time has been \r\n                                              fixed, on the expiration of a \r\n                                              reasonable time.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Transfer of Risk</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 27&#8212;Transfer of Risk</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The risk in the goods in a \r\n                                              contract of sale is transferred to \r\n                                              the buyer when the parties intend \r\n                                              it to be transferred.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Unless a different intention \r\n                                              appears, the goods are at the \r\n                                              seller''s risk until the property \r\n                                              in them passes to the buyer, after \r\n                                              which the goods are at the risk of \r\n                                              the buyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where delivery of the goods \r\n                                              has been delayed through the fault \r\n                                              of either buyer or seller the \r\n                                              goods are at the risk of the party \r\n                                              in fault as regards any loss, \r\n                                              damage or deterioration which \r\n                                              might not have occurred but for \r\n                                              the delay.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Nothing in this section \r\n                                              affects the duties or liabilities \r\n                                              of either seller or buyer as a \r\n                                              bailee of the goods of the other \r\n                                              party or any destruction or loss \r\n                                              or deterioration of or damage to \r\n                                              the goods which is caused by the \r\n                                              fault of either party.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Transfer of Property by a \r\n                                              Non-owner</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 28&#8212;Non-Owner Cannot \r\n                                              Generally Pass Good Title.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act and of any other \r\n                                              enactment where goods are sold by \r\n                                              a person who is not the owner \r\n                                              thereof and who does not sell them \r\n                                              under the authority or with the \r\n                                              consent of the owner, the buyer \r\n                                              acquires no better title than the \r\n                                              seller had.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Nothing in this section \r\n                                              affects the operation of the \r\n                                              doctrine of estoppel, or any power \r\n                                              of sale which may be conferred by \r\n                                              or under any enactment or by a \r\n                                              contract of pledge or otherwise.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 29&#8212;Disposition under \r\n                                              Voidable Title.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where a person has a voidable \r\n                                              title to goods any sale, pledge or \r\n                                              other disposition for value made \r\n                                              by that person before his title to \r\n                                              the goods has been avoided shall \r\n                                              be as effective as if his title \r\n                                              were not voidable, if the person \r\n                                              taking under the disposition acts \r\n                                              in good faith and without notice \r\n                                              of the defect in title of the \r\n                                              person making the disposition.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 30&#8212;Disposition by \r\n                                              Mercantile Agent in Possession of \r\n                                              Goods, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a mercantile agent is, \r\n                                              with the consent of the owner, in \r\n                                              possession of goods or of the \r\n                                              documents of title to goods, any \r\n                                              sale, pledge or other disposition \r\n                                              for value of the goods or \r\n                                              documents of title made by him \r\n                                              apparently in the ordinary course \r\n                                              of his business as a mercantile \r\n                                              agent, shall be as valid as if he \r\n                                              were expressly authorised by the \r\n                                              owner of the goods to make the \r\n                                              same, if the person taking under \r\n                                              the disposition acts in good \r\n                                              faith, and has not at the time of \r\n                                              the disposition notice that the \r\n                                              mercantile agent has not authority \r\n                                              to make the same.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a mercantile agent has, \r\n                                              with the consent of the owner, \r\n                                              been in possession of goods or of \r\n                                              the documents of title to goods, \r\n                                              any sale, pledge or other \r\n                                              disposition for value, which would \r\n                                              have been valid if the consent had \r\n                                              continued, shall be valid \r\n                                              notwithstanding the determination \r\n                                              of the consent unless the person \r\n                                              taking under the disposition has \r\n                                              at the time thereof notice that \r\n                                              the consent has been determined.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where a mercantile agent has \r\n                                              obtained possession of any \r\n                                              documents of title to goods by \r\n                                              reason of his being or having \r\n                                              been, with the consent of the \r\n                                              owner, in possession of the goods \r\n                                              represented thereby, or of any \r\n                                              other documents of title to the \r\n                                              goods, his possession of the first \r\n                                              mentioned documents shall, for the \r\n                                              purposes of this section, be \r\n                                              deemed to be with the consent of \r\n                                              the owner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              section the consent of the owner \r\n                                              shall be presumed unless the \r\n                                              contrary is proved.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The goods or documents of \r\n                                              title thereto are not deemed to be \r\n                                              in the possession of a mercantile \r\n                                              agent within the meaning of this \r\n                                              section unless they are in his \r\n                                              possession in his capacity as \r\n                                              mercantile agent.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Nothing in this section \r\n                                              affects the liability of a \r\n                                              mercantile agent to the owner for \r\n                                              any wrongful sale, pledge or other \r\n                                              disposition of the goods or \r\n                                              documents of title.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 31&#8212;Disposition by Seller \r\n                                              in Possession.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a person having agreed \r\n                                              to sell goods continues or is in \r\n                                              possession of them after the \r\n                                              property has passed to the buyer, \r\n                                              the delivery or transfer by the \r\n                                              seller, of the goods or documents \r\n                                              of title under any contract for \r\n                                              sale, pledge or other disposition \r\n                                              for value thereof, to any person \r\n                                              receiving the same in good faith \r\n                                              and without notice of the previous \r\n                                              sale, shall have the same effect \r\n                                              as if the seller were expressly \r\n                                              authorised by the original buyer \r\n                                              to make the same.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) This section applies whether \r\n                                              the seller is in possession of the \r\n                                              goods as bailee or in any other \r\n                                              capacity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Nothing in this section&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) derogates from the powers of a \r\n                                              seller in whom the property in the \r\n                                              goods is vested; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) affects the liability of the \r\n                                              seller to the buyer for any \r\n                                              wrongful sale, pledge or other \r\n                                              disposition for value of the goods \r\n                                              or documents of title.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 32&#8212;Disposition by Buyer in \r\n                                              Possession.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a buyer of goods obtains \r\n                                              the possession thereof or of \r\n                                              documents of title to the goods \r\n                                              with the consent of the seller \r\n                                              before the property passes to him, \r\n                                              the delivery or transfer by the \r\n                                              buyer, of the goods or documents \r\n                                              of title under any sale, pledge or \r\n                                              other disposition for value \r\n                                              thereof to any person receiving \r\n                                              the same in good faith and without \r\n                                              notice of the buyer''s lack of \r\n                                              title, shall have the same effect \r\n                                              as if the buyer were expressly \r\n                                              authorised by the seller to make \r\n                                              the same.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a buyer of goods obtains \r\n                                              the possession thereof with the \r\n                                              consent of the seller before the \r\n                                              property passes to him and \r\n                                              resells, pledges or otherwise \r\n                                              disposes of the goods for value to \r\n                                              a third party in such \r\n                                              circumstances that the sale, \r\n                                              pledge or other disposition would \r\n                                              not, but for this subsection, \r\n                                              transfer any rights in the goods \r\n                                              to the third party, under this Act \r\n                                              or otherwise, the third party may, \r\n                                              notwithstanding anything in the \r\n                                              original contract, retain or, as \r\n                                              the case may be, recover \r\n                                              possession of the goods on \r\n                                              tendering to the seller the unpaid \r\n                                              balance of the price due to the \r\n                                              seller and on his doing so the \r\n                                              seller''s title shall thereupon \r\n                                              vest in him, but subject to the \r\n                                              rights of the buyer (if any) \r\n                                              against the third party.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) This section applies whether \r\n                                              the buyer is in possession of the \r\n                                              goods as a bailee or in any other \r\n                                              capacity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Nothing in this section &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) derogates from the powers of a \r\n                                              buyer in whom the property in the \r\n                                              goods is vested; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) affects the liability of the \r\n                                              buyer to the seller for any \r\n                                              wrongful sale, pledge or other \r\n                                              disposition for value of the goods \r\n                                              or documents of title.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 33&#8212;Provisions Relating to \r\n                                              Notice of Ownership.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) For the purposes of the \r\n                                              provisions of this Part relating \r\n                                              to dispositions of goods to \r\n                                              persons receiving the same in good \r\n                                              faith and without notice of \r\n                                              defects in title, where a motor \r\n                                              vehicle is licensed by a licensing \r\n                                              authority under the provisions of \r\n                                              the Road Traffic Ordinance, 1952 \r\n                                              (No.55) every person shall be \r\n                                              deemed to have notice of the \r\n                                              ownership or interest (if any) of \r\n                                              the person in whose name it is so \r\n                                              licensed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              trade may, with the concurrence of \r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              licensing authorities, make \r\n                                              regulations by legislative \r\n                                              instrument &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) prescribing the forms to be \r\n                                              used and fees to be paid by \r\n                                              persons wishing to inspect the \r\n                                              records of a licensing authority;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) providing that a copy of an \r\n                                              entry in the records of a \r\n                                              licensing authority purporting to \r\n                                              be signed and certified as a true \r\n                                              copy by the person in charge of \r\n                                              the licensing office shall be \r\n                                              admissible in evidence in any \r\n                                              legal proceedings; and </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) generally for giving effect to \r\n                                              this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;REMEDIES OF THE SELLER</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Real Rights of Seller</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 34&#8212;Unpaid Seller Defined.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The seller of goods is an \r\n                                              unpaid seller within the meaning \r\n                                              of this Part &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; when the whole of the price \r\n                                              has not been paid or tendered;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) when a bill of exchange or \r\n                                              other negotiable instrument has \r\n                                              been received as conditional \r\n                                              payment and the condition on which \r\n                                              it was received has not been \r\n                                              fulfilled by reason of the \r\n                                              dishonour of the instrument or \r\n                                              otherwise.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In this Part the term &quot;seller&quot; \r\n                                              includes any person who is in the \r\n                                              position of a seller as, for \r\n                                              instance, an agent of the seller \r\n                                              to whom the bill of lading has \r\n                                              been endorsed, or a consignor or \r\n                                              agent who has himself paid or is \r\n                                              directly responsible for the \r\n                                              price.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 35&#8212;Unpaid Seller''s Rights.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, an unpaid seller of \r\n                                              goods has by implication of law &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) whether or not the property \r\n                                              therein has passed to the buyer &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              a lien on the goods;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) in case of the insolvency of \r\n                                              the buyer a right of stopping the \r\n                                              goods in transit after he has \r\n                                              parted with the possession of them \r\n                                              but before the buyer has obtained \r\n                                              the possession of them;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) a right of resale;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) where the property has not \r\n                                              passed to the buyer but the goods \r\n                                              have been delivered to him, a \r\n                                              right to recover possession of the \r\n                                              goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Nothing in this Part derogates \r\n                                              from the powers of an unpaid \r\n                                              seller where the contract is for \r\n                                              the sale of unascertained goods \r\n                                              and no goods have been \r\n                                              appropriated to the contract.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Lien</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 36&#8212;Seller''s Lien.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, an unpaid seller of \r\n                                              goods who is in possession of them \r\n                                              is entitled to retain possession \r\n                                              of them until payment or tender of \r\n                                              the price if&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the seller has not agreed to \r\n                                              deliver the goods before payment \r\n                                              of the price;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the goods have been sold on \r\n                                              credit but the term of credit has \r\n                                              expired; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the buyer has become \r\n                                              insolvent.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The seller may exercise his \r\n                                              right of lien notwithstanding that \r\n                                              he is in possession of the goods \r\n                                              as bailee or in any other \r\n                                              capacity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where an unpaid seller has \r\n                                              made part delivery of the goods he \r\n                                              may exercise his right of lien on \r\n                                              the remainder unless the part \r\n                                              delivery has been made in such \r\n                                              circumstances as to show an \r\n                                              agreement to waive the lien.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A contract of sale of goods is \r\n                                              not rescinded by reason only that \r\n                                              the seller has exercised his lien.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 37&#8212;Termination of lien.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) An unpaid seller of goods \r\n                                              loses his lien thereon&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) when he delivers the goods to \r\n                                              a carrier or other bailee for the \r\n                                              purpose of transmission to the \r\n                                              buyer without reserving the right \r\n                                              of disposal of the goods;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) when the buyer obtains the \r\n                                              possession of the goods with the \r\n                                              consent of the seller; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) by waiver thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) An unpaid seller of goods does \r\n                                              not lose his lien by reason only \r\n                                              that he has obtained judgment for \r\n                                              the price.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Stoppage in Transit</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 38&#8212; Stoppage in Transit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, when the buyer of goods \r\n                                              becomes insolvent an unpaid seller \r\n                                              who has parted with the possession \r\n                                              of the goods has the right of \r\n                                              stopping them in transit, that is \r\n                                              to say, he may resume possession \r\n                                              of the goods as long as they are \r\n                                              in course of transit and may \r\n                                              retain them until payment or \r\n                                              tender of the price.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A contract of sale is not \r\n                                              rescinded by reason only that the \r\n                                              seller has exercised his right of \r\n                                              stoppage in transit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 39&#8212;Duration of Transit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Goods are in course of transit \r\n                                              from the time when they are \r\n                                              delivered to a carrier or other \r\n                                              bailee until the buyer takes \r\n                                              delivery of them from the carrier \r\n                                              or bailee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If the buyer obtains delivery \r\n                                              of the goods before their arrival \r\n                                              at the appointed destination the \r\n                                              transit is at an end.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) If, after the arrival of the \r\n                                              goods at the appointed \r\n                                              destination, the carrier or other \r\n                                              bailee acknowledges to the buyer \r\n                                              that he holds the goods on his \r\n                                              behalf and continues in possession \r\n                                              of them as bailee for the buyer, \r\n                                              then subject to subsection (4), \r\n                                              the transit is at an end, and it \r\n                                              is immaterial that a further \r\n                                              destination for the goods may have \r\n                                              been indicated by the buyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If the goods are rejected by \r\n                                              the buyer and the carrier or other \r\n                                              bailee continues in possession of \r\n                                              them the transit is not deemed to \r\n                                              be at an end even if the seller \r\n                                              refuses to receive them back.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) When goods are delivered to a \r\n                                              ship chartered by the buyer it is \r\n                                              a question depending on the \r\n                                              circumstances of the case whether \r\n                                              they are in the possession of the \r\n                                              master as a carrier, or as agent \r\n                                              for the buyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Where the carrier or other \r\n                                              bailee wrongfully refuses to \r\n                                              deliver the goods to the buyer, \r\n                                              the transit is deemed to be at an \r\n                                              end.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Where part delivery has been \r\n                                              made to the buyer the remainder of \r\n                                              the goods may be stopped in \r\n                                              transit unless the part delivery \r\n                                              has been made under such \r\n                                              circumstances as to show an \r\n                                              agreement to waive the right of \r\n                                              stoppage in transit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 40&#8212;How Stoppage in Transit \r\n                                              is Effected.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An unpaid seller may exercise his \r\n                                              right of stoppage in transit \r\n                                              either by taking actual possession \r\n                                              of the goods, or by giving notice \r\n                                              of his claim to the carrier or \r\n                                              other bailee in whose possession \r\n                                              the goods are. Such notice may be \r\n                                              given either to the person in \r\n                                              actual possession of the goods or \r\n                                              to his principal. In the latter \r\n                                              case the notice, to be effectual, \r\n                                              must be given at such time and \r\n                                              under such circumstances that the \r\n                                              principal, by the exercise of \r\n                                              reasonable diligence, may \r\n                                              communicate it to his servant or \r\n                                              agent in time to prevent a \r\n                                              delivery to the buyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 41&#8212;Position as between \r\n                                              Seller and Carrier.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The right of an unpaid seller \r\n                                              to take possession of goods which \r\n                                              he has stopped in transit is \r\n                                              subject to a particular lien (if \r\n                                              any) of the carrier or other \r\n                                              bailee in respect of freight due \r\n                                              on the goods, but takes priority \r\n                                              over any other lien.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where notice of stoppage in \r\n                                              transit is given by the seller to \r\n                                              the carrier or other bailee in \r\n                                              possession of the goods, the \r\n                                              seller is bound to give \r\n                                              instructions within a reasonable \r\n                                              time to the carrier or other \r\n                                              bailee with respect to the \r\n                                              redelivery of the goods to the \r\n                                              seller or his order, and the \r\n                                              carrier is bound to deliver the \r\n                                              goods according to those \r\n                                              instructions. The expenses of such \r\n                                              redelivery as well as of the \r\n                                              original carriage must, as between \r\n                                              the seller and the carrier, be \r\n                                              borne by the seller.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 42&#8212;Stoppage Over Goods \r\n                                              Lost or Damaged, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where an unpaid seller exercises \r\n                                              his right of stoppage in transit \r\n                                              over goods which are lost or \r\n                                              damaged, or which deteriorate, in \r\n                                              transit, then, as between the \r\n                                              seller and the buyer, the proceeds \r\n                                              of any policy of insurance \r\n                                              respecting the goods shall be \r\n                                              payable &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) to the seller if the insurance \r\n                                              was effected by him and he \r\n                                              exercises his right of stoppage in \r\n                                              transit before the loss, damage or \r\n                                              deterioration occurs;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to the buyer, in any other \r\n                                              case.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 43&#8212;Effect of Resale or \r\n                                              Other Disposition by Buyer.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where a seller has a right of lien \r\n                                              or stoppage in transit over goods \r\n                                              &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) if the seller assents to a \r\n                                              resale or other disposition by the \r\n                                              buyer he loses his right of lien \r\n                                              or stoppage in transit;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) if the buyer resells the goods \r\n                                              or documents of title thereto in \r\n                                              such circumstances that the resale \r\n                                              is effective to pass a title, \r\n                                              under section 32 of this Act or \r\n                                              otherwise, the seller loses his \r\n                                              right of lien or stoppage in \r\n                                              transit;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) if the buyer disposes of the \r\n                                              goods or the documents of title \r\n                                              thereto otherwise than by way of \r\n                                              sale, in such circumstances that \r\n                                              the disposition is effective under \r\n                                              section 32 of this Act or \r\n                                              otherwise, the seller may exercise \r\n                                              his right of lien or stoppage in \r\n                                              transit subject to the rights of \r\n                                              any person claiming by or under \r\n                                              such disposition as aforesaid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Recovery of Possession from Buyer</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 44&#8212;Seller''s Right to \r\n                                              Recover Possession after Delivery.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act, and subject to any contrary \r\n                                              intention an unpaid seller may \r\n                                              recover possession of the goods \r\n                                              from the buyer after they have \r\n                                              been delivered to him if &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the property has not passed to \r\n                                              the buyer; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the property has passed to the \r\n                                              buyer but the contract \r\n                                              nevertheless expressly confers a \r\n                                              right on the seller to recover \r\n                                              possession; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and the buyer fails to pay the \r\n                                              price in accordance with the terms \r\n                                              of the contract, but not \r\n                                              otherwise.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Resale</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 45&#8212;Resale by Seller.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An unpaid seller who is in \r\n                                              possession of the goods is \r\n                                              entitled as against the buyer to \r\n                                              resell them in any of the \r\n                                              following cases &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) where they are of a perishable \r\n                                              nature and the buyer does not \r\n                                              within a reasonable time pay or \r\n                                              tender the price;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) where the buyer has repudiated \r\n                                              the contract and the seller has \r\n                                              accepted the repudiation;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) where the seller gives notice \r\n                                              to the buyer of his intention to \r\n                                              resell and the buyer does not \r\n                                              within a reasonable time pay or \r\n                                              tender the price.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Personal Rights of the Seller</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 46&#8212;Action for Price.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where, under a contract of \r\n                                              sale of goods, the property has \r\n                                              passed to the buyer, and the buyer \r\n                                              wrongfully refuses or neglects to \r\n                                              pay for the goods according to the \r\n                                              terms of the contract, the seller \r\n                                              may maintain an action against him \r\n                                              for the price of the goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where, under a contract of \r\n                                              sale of goods, the price or a part \r\n                                              thereof is payable on a day \r\n                                              certain, and the buyer wrongfully \r\n                                              neglects or refuses to pay the \r\n                                              price or the part which has become \r\n                                              due, according to the terms of the \r\n                                              contract, the seller may maintain \r\n                                              an action for the price or the \r\n                                              part which has become due, as the \r\n                                              case may be, notwithstanding that \r\n                                              the property in the goods may not \r\n                                              have passed to the buyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where, under a contract of \r\n                                              sale of goods, the seller delivers \r\n                                              part only of the goods and the \r\n                                              buyer accepts or is bound to \r\n                                              accept that part, the seller may \r\n                                              maintain an action against the \r\n                                              buyer for a proportionate part of \r\n                                              the price without prejudice to any \r\n                                              counterclaim by the buyer for \r\n                                              damages in accordance with section \r\n                                              53 of this Act. This subsection \r\n                                              does not apply to any contract to \r\n                                              which Part I of the Contracts Act, \r\n                                              1960 (Act 25) applies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Nothing in this section \r\n                                              prevents a seller from maintaining \r\n                                              an action for damages in addition \r\n                                              to an action for the price where \r\n                                              the circumstances warrant.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 47&#8212;Damages for \r\n                                              Non-acceptance.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where the buyer wrongfully \r\n                                              neglects or refuses to accept and \r\n                                              pay for the goods in accordance \r\n                                              with the terms of the contract the \r\n                                              seller may maintain an action \r\n                                              against him for damages for \r\n                                              non-acceptance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In a contract for the sale of \r\n                                              goods to be delivered by \r\n                                              instalments &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) if each instalment is to be \r\n                                              separately paid for subsection (1) \r\n                                              shall apply to each instalment \r\n                                              separately:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that where the buyer has \r\n                                              by his words or conduct shown an \r\n                                              intention to repudiate the \r\n                                              contract the seller may, if he \r\n                                              accepts the repudiation, maintain \r\n                                              an action for damages for \r\n                                              non-acceptance in respect of all \r\n                                              the goods;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; in any other case, such a \r\n                                              breach as is referred to in \r\n                                              subsection (1) in respect of one \r\n                                              or more instalments shall be \r\n                                              treated for the purposes of that \r\n                                              subsection as though it were a \r\n                                              breach in respect of the whole \r\n                                              contract or of all the remaining \r\n                                              part of the contract, as the case \r\n                                              may be.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 48&#8212;Assessment of Damages.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The measure of damages in an \r\n                                              action under section 47 of this \r\n                                              Act is the loss which could \r\n                                              reasonably have been foreseen by \r\n                                              the buyer at the time when the \r\n                                              contract was made as likely to \r\n                                              arise from his breach of contract.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where there is an available \r\n                                              market for the goods in question \r\n                                              the measure of damages is prima \r\n                                              facie to be ascertained by the \r\n                                              difference between the contract \r\n                                              price and the market or current \r\n                                              price&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) if a time has been fixed for \r\n                                              acceptance, or if the buyer \r\n                                              repudiates the contract before the \r\n                                              time of performance, and the \r\n                                              seller does not accept the \r\n                                              repudiation, at the time or times \r\n                                              when the goods ought to have been \r\n                                              accepted;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) in any other case, at the time \r\n                                              or times of the refusal to accept \r\n                                              the goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In this section a time is not \r\n                                              deemed to have been fixed for \r\n                                              acceptance by reason only that the \r\n                                              goods are to be accepted within a \r\n                                              reasonable time.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;REMEDIES OF THE BUYER</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Rejection of the goods</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 49&#8212;When Buyer has Right to \r\n                                              Reject.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act the buyer is entitled to \r\n                                              reject the goods and to refuse to \r\n                                              pay, or as the case may be, to \r\n                                              recover, the price where &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the seller is guilty of a \r\n                                              breach of a fundamental \r\n                                              obligation; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the seller is guilty of a \r\n                                              breach, not being of a trivial \r\n                                              nature, of a condition of the \r\n                                              contract, whether the breach is in \r\n                                              respect of all of the goods or, \r\n                                              subject to subsection (2), of part \r\n                                              only; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the buyer has entered into the \r\n                                              contract as a result of fraudulent \r\n                                              or innocent misrepresentation on \r\n                                              the part of the seller.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where there is a contract for \r\n                                              the sale of goods which are to be \r\n                                              delivered by instalments, then&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) if each instalment is to be \r\n                                              separately paid for, subsection \r\n                                              (1) shall apply to each instalment \r\n                                              separately:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that where there are \r\n                                              persistent and grave breaches by \r\n                                              the seller in respect of two or \r\n                                              more instalments the buyer may \r\n                                              treat the whole contract as \r\n                                              repudiated.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided further that nothing in \r\n                                              this paragraph shall affect the \r\n                                              buyer''s rights under paragraph (c) \r\n                                              of subsection (1);</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) in any other case, such a \r\n                                              breach as is referred to in \r\n                                              subsection (1) in respect of one \r\n                                              or more instalments shall be \r\n                                              treated for the purpose of that \r\n                                              subsection as though it were a \r\n                                              breach in respect of the whole \r\n                                              contract.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 50&#8212;Effect of Rejection.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where goods are delivered to \r\n                                              the buyer and he rejects them, \r\n                                              having the right so to do, he is \r\n                                              not bound to return them to the \r\n                                              seller, but it is sufficient if he \r\n                                              intimates to the seller that he \r\n                                              rejects them.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) After the buyer has intimated \r\n                                              to the seller that he rejects the \r\n                                              goods the seller is entitled to \r\n                                              have the goods placed at his \r\n                                              disposal:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that where the buyer has \r\n                                              paid the price or any part thereof \r\n                                              he may retain the possession of \r\n                                              the goods until the seller repays \r\n                                              or tenders the amounts he has \r\n                                              received from the buyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 51&#8212;No Rejection after \r\n                                              Acceptance.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The buyer may not reject goods \r\n                                              which he has accepted.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The acceptance of a part of \r\n                                              the goods does not deprive the \r\n                                              buyer of any right to reject any \r\n                                              other part unless the contract is \r\n                                              not severable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 52&#8212;Acceptance.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The buyer is deemed to have \r\n                                              accepted the goods when&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) he intimates to the seller \r\n                                              that he accepts them; or </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) he does not, within a \r\n                                              reasonable time after delivery of \r\n                                              the goods, inform the seller that \r\n                                              he rejects them; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) he wrongfully refuses or \r\n                                              neglects to place the goods at the \r\n                                              disposal of the seller after \r\n                                              notifying the seller that he \r\n                                              rejects them.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Personal Rights of the Buyer</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 53&#8212;Damages for \r\n                                              Non-Delivery.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where the seller wrongfully \r\n                                              neglects or refuses to deliver the \r\n                                              goods to the buyer, in accordance \r\n                                              with the terms of the contract, or \r\n                                              where the buyer rejects the goods \r\n                                              delivered by the seller having the \r\n                                              right so to do, the buyer may \r\n                                              maintain an action against the \r\n                                              seller for damages for \r\n                                              non-delivery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 54&#8212;Assessment of Damages \r\n                                              for Non-Delivery.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The measure of damages in an \r\n                                              action under section 53 of this \r\n                                              Act is the loss which could \r\n                                              reasonably have been foreseen by \r\n                                              the seller at the time when the \r\n                                              contract was made as likely to \r\n                                              result from his breach of \r\n                                              contract.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where there is an available \r\n                                              market for the goods in question \r\n                                              the measure of damages is prima \r\n                                              facie to be ascertained by the \r\n                                              difference between the market or \r\n                                              current price and the contract \r\n                                              price &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) if a time has been fixed for \r\n                                              delivery, or if the seller \r\n                                              repudiates the contract before the \r\n                                              time of performance, and the buyer \r\n                                              does not accept the repudiation, \r\n                                              at the time or times when the \r\n                                              goods ought to have been \r\n                                              delivered;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; in any other case, at the \r\n                                              time or times of the refusal to \r\n                                              deliver the goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In this section a time is not \r\n                                              deemed to have been fixed for \r\n                                              delivery by reason only that the \r\n                                              goods are to be delivered within a \r\n                                              reasonable time.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 55&#8212;Damages for Breach of \r\n                                              Condition or Warranty.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where the seller is guilty of a \r\n                                              breach of his fundamental \r\n                                              obligation or of a condition or \r\n                                              warranty of the contract the buyer \r\n                                              may maintain an action against the \r\n                                              seller for damages for the breach \r\n                                              complained of or may set up a \r\n                                              claim to such damages in \r\n                                              diminution or extinction of the \r\n                                              price.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 56&#8212;Assessment of Damages \r\n                                              Under Sec. 55.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The measure of damages in an \r\n                                              action under section 55 of this \r\n                                              Act is the loss which could \r\n                                              reasonably have been foreseen by \r\n                                              the seller at the time when the \r\n                                              contract was made as likely to \r\n                                              result from his breach of \r\n                                              contract.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 57&#8212;No Forfeiture of Sums \r\n                                              Paid by Buyer.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where under a contract of sale \r\n                                              the buyer has paid a part or all \r\n                                              of the price to the seller and the \r\n                                              seller refuses or neglects to \r\n                                              deliver the goods to the buyer, \r\n                                              having the right so to do, or, \r\n                                              after delivering the goods, \r\n                                              recovers the possession thereof \r\n                                              having the right so to do, the \r\n                                              buyer is entitled (without \r\n                                              prejudice to any other rights, but \r\n                                              subject to any counterclaim for \r\n                                              damages by the seller) to recover \r\n                                              from the seller the amounts which \r\n                                              he has paid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) This section applies whether \r\n                                              the amounts paid by the buyer were \r\n                                              expressed to be by way of part \r\n                                              payment or deposit or otherwise, \r\n                                              and notwithstanding any agreement \r\n                                              to the contrary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Nothing in this section \r\n                                              affects any case where the \r\n                                              seller''s refusal or neglect to \r\n                                              deliver the goods, or his recovery \r\n                                              of the possession thereof is \r\n                                              wrongful.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 58&#8212;Specific Performance.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In any action for breach of \r\n                                              contract to deliver specific or \r\n                                              ascertained goods the Court may, \r\n                                              if it thinks fit, by its judgment \r\n                                              direct that the contract should be \r\n                                              specifically performed without \r\n                                              giving the seller the option of \r\n                                              retaining the goods on payment of \r\n                                              damages. The judgment may be \r\n                                              unconditional or upon such terms \r\n                                              as to damages, costs and otherwise \r\n                                              as the Court may think fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VII&#8212;C.I.F. AND F.O.B. SALES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 59&#8212;Parts I to VI to be \r\n                                              Read Subject to This Part.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The provisions of Parts I to \r\n                                              VI of this Act shall, in relation \r\n                                              to c.i.f. and f.o.b. contracts, be \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Part.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The provisions of this Part \r\n                                              shall apply, with any necessary \r\n                                              modifications to contracts \r\n                                              analogous to c.i.f. or f.o.b. \r\n                                              contracts respectively, and in \r\n                                              particular to c. and f. contracts, \r\n                                              f.o.r. contracts and f.a.s. \r\n                                              contracts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; In this Part &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;c.i.f&quot; \r\n                                              means cost, insurance, freight;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;f.o.b.&quot; means free on board;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;c. and f.&quot; means cost and \r\n                                              freight;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;f.o.r.&quot; \r\n                                              means free on rail;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;f.a.s.&quot; means free alongside.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 60&#8212;Export and Import \r\n                                              Licences.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In a c.i.f. contract, unless a \r\n                                              contrary intention appears&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) it is the duty of the seller \r\n                                              to obtain any necessary export \r\n                                              licence;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) it is the duty of the buyer to \r\n                                              obtain any necessary import \r\n                                              licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In a f.o.b. contract, unless a \r\n                                              contrary intention appears&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) where the buyer is resident in \r\n                                              the country from which shipment is \r\n                                              to be made, it is the duty of the \r\n                                              buyer to obtain any necessary \r\n                                              export licence;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) in any other case, it is the \r\n                                              duty of the seller to obtain any \r\n                                              necessary export licence;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) it is the duty of the buyer to \r\n                                              obtain any necessary import \r\n                                              licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where a party is under a duty, \r\n                                              whether under this section or \r\n                                              otherwise, to obtain any necessary \r\n                                              export or import licence, it is a \r\n                                              question depending on all the \r\n                                              circumstances of the case whether \r\n                                              the duty is discharged where the \r\n                                              party has used his best endeavours \r\n                                              to obtain a licence, but \r\n                                              nevertheless has not obtained one, \r\n                                              or whether he is still bound to \r\n                                              deliver or, as the case may be, to \r\n                                              accept delivery of the goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) In a c.i.f. or f.o.b. contract \r\n                                              the party who is required to \r\n                                              obtain any necessary export \r\n                                              licence is, unless a contrary \r\n                                              intention appears, bound to pay \r\n                                              any export taxes or dues in the \r\n                                              nature of taxes, and the party who \r\n                                              is required to obtain any \r\n                                              necessary import licence is, in \r\n                                              the absence of a contrary \r\n                                              intention, bound to pay any import \r\n                                              taxes, or customs duties or dues \r\n                                              in the nature of taxes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) In this section export and \r\n                                              import licences include all \r\n                                              permits without which it would be \r\n                                              illegal to export or import the \r\n                                              goods from or to, the country in \r\n                                              question.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 61&#8212;C.I.F. Contracts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In a c.i.f. contract, unless a \r\n                                              contrary intention appears &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the seller is bound at his own \r\n                                              expense, to ship the goods during \r\n                                              the agreed period, if any, to the \r\n                                              port agreed upon or to acquire \r\n                                              goods afloat which have been so \r\n                                              shipped;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the seller is bound, at his \r\n                                              own expense, to effect on the \r\n                                              goods an insurance of the type \r\n                                              normal for goods and a voyage of \r\n                                              the kind in question;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the seller is bound to \r\n                                              transfer to the buyer proper \r\n                                              shipping documents in accordance \r\n                                              with the terms of the contract;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the buyer is bound to take up \r\n                                              proper shipping documents and, on \r\n                                              doing so, to pay the price in \r\n                                              accordance with the terms of the \r\n                                              contract;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) the goods are deemed to be \r\n                                              delivered to the buyer, and the \r\n                                              property therein accordingly \r\n                                              passes to the buyer, on the \r\n                                              transfer to him of the bills of \r\n                                              lading;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) the risk in the goods passes \r\n                                              to the buyer when they are shipped \r\n                                              or acquired afloat.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 62&#8212;F.O.B. Contracts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In a f.o.b. contract, unless a \r\n                                              contrary intention appears &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the buyer is entitled and \r\n                                              bound to nominate a ship to the \r\n                                              seller calling during the agreed \r\n                                              period, if any, at the agreed, or \r\n                                              where the buyer has an option, one \r\n                                              of the agreed, ports, and ready \r\n                                              and willing to carry the goods;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the seller is bound, at his \r\n                                              own expense, to have the goods \r\n                                              loaded on the ship nominated by \r\n                                              the buyer;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the seller is bound to give \r\n                                              such notice to the buyer as \r\n                                              required by section 20(2) of this \r\n                                              Act except where the buyer already \r\n                                              has the necessary information;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the seller is not bound to \r\n                                              effect any insurance on the goods;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) the seller is bound to \r\n                                              transmit to the buyer bills of \r\n                                              lading by which the goods are \r\n                                              deliverable to the buyer or his \r\n                                              order or to transfer to the buyer \r\n                                              bills of lading by which the goods \r\n                                              are deliverable to the seller or \r\n                                              his order;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) where by the bills of lading, \r\n                                              the goods are deliverable to, or \r\n                                              to the order of the seller, the \r\n                                              property passes to the buyer when \r\n                                              the bills of lading are \r\n                                              transferred to him, and where by \r\n                                              the bills of lading the goods are \r\n                                              deliverable to, or to the order of \r\n                                              the buyer, the property passes to \r\n                                              the buyer when the goods are \r\n                                              shipped;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) the risk in the goods passes \r\n                                              to the buyer when they are \r\n                                              shipped.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 63&#8212;Payment of Price by \r\n                                              Bankers'' Commercial Credit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where, in a c.i.f. or f.o.b. \r\n                                              contract the price is to be paid \r\n                                              by means of a letter of credit \r\n                                              opened at a bank to be nominated \r\n                                              by the seller, then in the absence \r\n                                              of a contrary intention&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the credit must be opened not \r\n                                              later than the earliest date on \r\n                                              which the seller may ship the \r\n                                              goods, or where the date of \r\n                                              shipment is to be fixed by the \r\n                                              buyer, not later than the earliest \r\n                                              date on which the seller may be \r\n                                              required to ship the goods;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) as against the buyer, the \r\n                                              seller is only entitled to draw \r\n                                              against the credit on presentation \r\n                                              to the bank of proper shipping \r\n                                              documents.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 64&#8212;Meaning of Proper \r\n                                              Shipping Documents.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the purposes of this Part \r\n                                              &quot;proper shipping documents&quot; means&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the seller''s invoices for the \r\n                                              goods;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) bills of lading which \r\n                                              acknowledge that the goods have \r\n                                              been shipped and which contain no \r\n                                              reservation as to the apparent \r\n                                              good order and condition of the \r\n                                              goods or the packing; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) in a c.i.f. contract and in \r\n                                              any other contract where the \r\n                                              seller is bound to effect \r\n                                              insurance on the goods, policies \r\n                                              of insurance, or, where permitted \r\n                                              by commercial custom, certificates \r\n                                              of insurance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 65&#8212;Duties Under This Part \r\n                                              to be Construed as Conditions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              All duties imposed on a buyer or \r\n                                              seller under this Part are, unless \r\n                                              a contrary intention appears in \r\n                                              the contract, conditions and not \r\n                                              warranties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VIII&#8212;HIRE-PURCHASE CONTRACTS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 66&#8212;Formalities Relating to \r\n                                              Hire-Purchase Contracts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Before any hire-purchase \r\n                                              contract is entered into in \r\n                                              respect of any goods, the seller \r\n                                              shall state in writing to the \r\n                                              prospective buyer (otherwise than \r\n                                              in the note or memorandum referred \r\n                                              to in subsection (3)), a price at \r\n                                              which the goods may be purchased \r\n                                              by him for cash (in this Part \r\n                                              referred to as the &quot;cash price&quot;), \r\n                                              and shall also state the cash \r\n                                              price to the purchaser orally.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subsection (1) shall be deemed \r\n                                              to have been sufficiently complied \r\n                                              with if the seller states the cash \r\n                                              price to the buyer orally, and&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) if the buyer has inspected the \r\n                                              goods or like goods and at the \r\n                                              time of his inspection tickets or \r\n                                              labels were attached to or \r\n                                              displayed with the goods clearly \r\n                                              stating the cash price, either of \r\n                                              the goods as a whole or of all the \r\n                                              different articles or sets of \r\n                                              articles comprised therein; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) if the buyer has selected the \r\n                                              goods by reference to a catalogue, \r\n                                              price list, or advertisement, \r\n                                              which clearly stated the cash \r\n                                              price either of the goods as a \r\n                                              whole or of all the different \r\n                                              articles or sets of articles \r\n                                              comprised therein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A seller shall not be entitled \r\n                                              to enforce a hire-purchase \r\n                                              contract or any contract of \r\n                                              guarantee relating thereto or any \r\n                                              right to recover the goods from \r\n                                              the buyer, and no security given \r\n                                              by the buyer in respect of money \r\n                                              payable under the hire-purchase \r\n                                              contract or given by the guarantor \r\n                                              in respect of money payable under \r\n                                              such a contract of guarantee as \r\n                                              aforesaid shall be enforceable \r\n                                              against the buyer or guarantor by \r\n                                              any holder thereof, unless the \r\n                                              requirement specified in \r\n                                              subsection (1) has been complied \r\n                                              with, and &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a note or memorandum of the \r\n                                              agreement is made and signed by \r\n                                              the buyer and by or on behalf of \r\n                                              all other parties to the \r\n                                              agreement, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the note or memorandum \r\n                                              contains a statement of the \r\n                                              hire-purchase price and the cash \r\n                                              price of the goods to which the \r\n                                              agreement relates and of the \r\n                                              amount of each of the instalments \r\n                                              by which the price is to be paid \r\n                                              and of the date or the mode of \r\n                                              determining the date upon which \r\n                                              each instalment is payable, and \r\n                                              contains a list of the goods to \r\n                                              which the agreement relates \r\n                                              sufficiently to identify them, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the note or memorandum \r\n                                              contains a notice which is at \r\n                                              least as prominent as the rest of \r\n                                              the contents of the note or \r\n                                              memorandum, in the terms \r\n                                              prescribed in the First Schedule \r\n                                              to this Act, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) a copy of the note or \r\n                                              memorandum is delivered or sent to \r\n                                              the buyer within fourteen days of \r\n                                              the making of the agreement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If the Court is satisfied in \r\n                                              any action that a failure to \r\n                                              comply with the requirement \r\n                                              specified in subsection (1) or any \r\n                                              requirement specified in paragraph \r\n                                              (b), (c) or (d) of subsection (3) \r\n                                              has not prejudiced the buyer and \r\n                                              that it would be just and \r\n                                              equitable to dispense with the \r\n                                              requirement, the Court may, \r\n                                              subject to any conditions that it \r\n                                              thinks fit to impose, dispense \r\n                                              with that requirement for the \r\n                                              purposes of the action.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 67&#8212;Provision in \r\n                                              Hire-Purchase Contract Authorising \r\n                                              Seller to Enter Buyer''s Premises \r\n                                              to be Void.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any provision in a hire-purchase \r\n                                              contract whereby the seller or any \r\n                                              person acting on his behalf is \r\n                                              authorised to enter upon any \r\n                                              premises for the purpose of taking \r\n                                              possession of the goods, or is \r\n                                              relieved from liability for any \r\n                                              such entry, is void.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 68&#8212;Special Provisions as \r\n                                              to Determination of Hire-Purchase \r\n                                              Contracts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A buyer may, at any time \r\n                                              before the final payment under a \r\n                                              hire-purchase contract falls due, \r\n                                              and not withstanding anything in \r\n                                              the contract, determine the \r\n                                              contract by returning the goods to \r\n                                              the seller.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) On the termination of a \r\n                                              contract of hire purchase, whether \r\n                                              by the seller lawfully retaking \r\n                                              the possession of the goods from \r\n                                              the buyer, or under the provisions \r\n                                              of subsection (1) or otherwise, \r\n                                              then, without prejudice to any \r\n                                              liability which has accrued before \r\n                                              the termination, the buyer shall \r\n                                              be liable to pay to the seller the \r\n                                              amount, if any, by which one-half \r\n                                              of the hire-purchase price exceeds \r\n                                              the total of the sums paid and the \r\n                                              sums due in respect of the \r\n                                              hire-purchase price immediately \r\n                                              before the termination.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) where a hire-purchase contract \r\n                                              has been determined under this \r\n                                              section, the buyer shall, if he \r\n                                              has failed to take reasonable care \r\n                                              of the goods, be liable to pay \r\n                                              damages for the failure.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Nothing in this section \r\n                                              affects&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) any right of a buyer to \r\n                                              determine a hire-purchase contract \r\n                                              otherwise than by virtue of this \r\n                                              section;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any contract of hire-purchase \r\n                                              which is the subject of an order \r\n                                              of the court under section 70 of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 69&#8212;Restriction of Seller''s \r\n                                              Right to Recover Possession in \r\n                                              Hire-Purchase Contracts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where goods have been \r\n                                              delivered to a buyer under a \r\n                                              contract of hire-purchase, and at \r\n                                              least fifty per cent, or such \r\n                                              other minimum percentage as may be \r\n                                              prescribed, of the hire-purchase \r\n                                              price has been paid or tendered by \r\n                                              or on behalf of the buyer, the \r\n                                              seller may not enforce any right \r\n                                              to recover possession of the goods \r\n                                              from the buyer otherwise than by \r\n                                              action.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If a seller recovers \r\n                                              possession of goods in \r\n                                              contravention of subsection (1) \r\n                                              the hire-purchase contract, if not \r\n                                              previously determined, shall \r\n                                              determine, and&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the buyer shall be released \r\n                                              from all liability under the \r\n                                              contract and shall be entitled to \r\n                                              recover from the seller all sums \r\n                                              paid by the buyer under or in \r\n                                              respect of the contract; and\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any guarantor shall be \r\n                                              entitled to recover from the \r\n                                              seller all sums paid by him under \r\n                                              or in respect of the contract of \r\n                                              guarantee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not \r\n                                              apply where the contract has been \r\n                                              determined by the buyer by virtue \r\n                                              of any right vested in him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where by virtue of this \r\n                                              section the enforcement by a \r\n                                              seller of a right to recover \r\n                                              possession of goods is subject to \r\n                                              any restriction, and the buyer \r\n                                              refuses to give up possession of \r\n                                              the goods to&nbsp; the seller, the \r\n                                              buyer shall not by reason only of \r\n                                              the refusal be liable to the \r\n                                              seller for conversion of the \r\n                                              goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 70&#8212;Powers of Court in \r\n                                              Action by Seller under \r\n                                              Hire-Purchase Contract.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where, in any case to which \r\n                                              section 69 of this Act applies, a \r\n                                              seller commences an action to \r\n                                              recover possession of goods from a \r\n                                              buyer after at least the \r\n                                              appropriate percentage of the \r\n                                              hire-purchase price has been paid \r\n                                              or tendered as aforesaid the \r\n                                              seller shall not after the action \r\n                                              has been commenced take any step \r\n                                              to enforce payment of any sum due \r\n                                              under or in respect of the \r\n                                              hire-purchase contract except by \r\n                                              claiming the money in the action.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Pending the hearing of the \r\n                                              action the Court may, upon the \r\n                                              application of the seller make \r\n                                              such orders as it thinks just for \r\n                                              the purpose of protecting the \r\n                                              goods from damage or depreciation, \r\n                                              including orders restricting or \r\n                                              prohibiting the use of the goods \r\n                                              or giving directions as to their \r\n                                              custody.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) On the hearing of the action \r\n                                              the Court may, notwithstanding \r\n                                              anything in the contract to the \r\n                                              contrary&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) order the buyer to deliver a \r\n                                              part or all of the goods to the \r\n                                              seller without giving him the \r\n                                              option of retaining the goods on \r\n                                              payment of damages;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) order the buyer to pay the \r\n                                              unpaid part of the hire-purchase \r\n                                              price at such times and in such \r\n                                              amounts and subject to such \r\n                                              conditions as the Court thinks \r\n                                              fit;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) make an order under paragraph \r\n                                              (a) but subject to the condition \r\n                                              that the seller refunds to the \r\n                                              buyer such part of the sums paid \r\n                                              by him as the Court thinks fit;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) make an order under paragraph \r\n                                              (a) but postpone its operation on \r\n                                              condition that the buyer pays the \r\n                                              unpaid balance of the \r\n                                              hire-purchase price at such times \r\n                                              and in such amounts and subject to \r\n                                              such other conditions, as the \r\n                                              Court thinks fit; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) allocate the sums which have \r\n                                              been paid or a part thereof to a \r\n                                              part of the goods and make an \r\n                                              order transferring the seller''s \r\n                                              title in respect thereof to the \r\n                                              buyer, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) make orders under two or more \r\n                                              of paragraphs (a) to (e), and may \r\n                                              make such further incidental \r\n                                              orders as may be just.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 71&#8212;Effect of Postponement \r\n                                              of Operation of an Order for \r\n                                              Specific Delivery of Goods.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) While the operation of an \r\n                                              order for the specific delivery of \r\n                                              goods to the owner is postponed \r\n                                              under section 70 of this Act the \r\n                                              buyer shall be deemed to hold the \r\n                                              goods under and on the terms of \r\n                                              the hire-purchase agreement:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that no further sum shall \r\n                                              be or become payable by the hirer \r\n                                              or a guarantor on account of the \r\n                                              unpaid balance of the \r\n                                              hire-purchase price except in \r\n                                              accordance with the terms of the \r\n                                              order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If while the operation of an \r\n                                              order for the specific delivery of \r\n                                              the goods to the owner is so \r\n                                              postponed the buyer or a guarantor \r\n                                              fails to comply with any condition \r\n                                              of the postponement, or with any \r\n                                              term of the contract as varied by \r\n                                              the Court, or wrongfully disposes \r\n                                              of the goods, the seller shall not \r\n                                              take any civil proceedings against \r\n                                              the hirer or guarantor otherwise \r\n                                              than by making an application to \r\n                                              the Court by which the order was \r\n                                              made:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that, in the case of a \r\n                                              breach of any condition relating \r\n                                              to the payment of the unpaid \r\n                                              balance of the hire-purchase \r\n                                              price, the seller may recover the \r\n                                              possession of the goods unless the \r\n                                              order of the Court otherwise \r\n                                              directs, but subject to the right \r\n                                              of the buyer to apply to the Court \r\n                                              under subsection (4).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) When the unpaid balance of the \r\n                                              hire-purchase price has been paid \r\n                                              in accordance with the terms of \r\n                                              the order, the seller''s title in \r\n                                              the goods shall vest in the buyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Court may, on the \r\n                                              application of the buyer or the \r\n                                              seller, at any time during the \r\n                                              postponement of the operation of \r\n                                              such an order as aforesaid, revoke \r\n                                              or vary the order, and may make \r\n                                              any other order under section 70, \r\n                                              and where the seller has recovered \r\n                                              possession of the goods the Court \r\n                                              may order him to return them to \r\n                                              the buyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 72&#8212;Assignments Contrary to \r\n                                              Contract.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where a hire-purchase contract \r\n                                              provides that the buyer shall not \r\n                                              assign or part with the possession \r\n                                              or control of the goods:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) the buyer shall on the written \r\n                                              request of the seller, inform him \r\n                                              where the goods are at the time \r\n                                              when the information is given or, \r\n                                              if it is sent by post, at the time \r\n                                              of posting, and if the buyer fails \r\n                                              without reasonable cause to give \r\n                                              the information within fourteen \r\n                                              days of receiving the request, he \r\n                                              shall be liable on conviction to a \r\n                                              fine not exceeding ten pounds;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) if the buyer, before the \r\n                                              property has passed to him, \r\n                                              resells, pledges or otherwise \r\n                                              disposes of the goods for value to \r\n                                              a third party in such \r\n                                              circumstances that section 32 of \r\n                                              this Act gives rights in the goods \r\n                                              to the third party, he shall be \r\n                                              guilty of a misdemeanour.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 73&#8212;Duty of Seller to \r\n                                              Supply Documents and Information.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) At any time before the final \r\n                                              payment has been made under a \r\n                                              hire-purchase contract, the seller \r\n                                              shall, within seven days after he \r\n                                              has received a request in writing \r\n                                              from the buyer and the buyer has \r\n                                              tendered to him the sum of one \r\n                                              shilling for expenses, supply to \r\n                                              the buyer a copy of any memorandum \r\n                                              or note of the agreement, together \r\n                                              with a statement signed by the \r\n                                              seller or his agent showing&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the amount paid by or on \r\n                                              behalf of the buyer;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the amount which has become \r\n                                              due under the contract but remains \r\n                                              unpaid, and the date upon which \r\n                                              each unpaid instalment became due, \r\n                                              and the amount of each such \r\n                                              instalment, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the amount which is to become \r\n                                              payable under the contract, and \r\n                                              the date or the mode of \r\n                                              determining the date upon which \r\n                                              each future instalment is to \r\n                                              become payable, and the amount of \r\n                                              each such instalment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In the event of a failure \r\n                                              without reasonable cause to comply \r\n                                              with subsection (1), then, while \r\n                                              the default continues&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the seller shall not be \r\n                                              entitled to enforce the agreement \r\n                                              against the buyer or to enforce \r\n                                              any contract of guarantee relating \r\n                                              to the contract, and the seller \r\n                                              shall not be entitled to enforce \r\n                                              any right to recover the goods \r\n                                              from the buyer, and </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) no security given by the \r\n                                              buyer, in respect of money payable \r\n                                              under the contract or given by a \r\n                                              guarantor in respect of money \r\n                                              payable under such a contract of \r\n                                              guarantee shall be enforceable \r\n                                              against the buyer or the guarantor \r\n                                              by any holder thereof, </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and, if the default continues for \r\n                                              a period of one month, the \r\n                                              defaulter shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence under this section and \r\n                                              shall be liable on conviction \r\n                                              thereof to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              ten pounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 74&#8212;Regulations as to \r\n                                              Hire-Purchase Contracts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              trade may by legislative \r\n                                              instrument make regulations \r\n                                              providing for the regulation and \r\n                                              control of the selling under \r\n                                              hire-purchase contracts of goods \r\n                                              or of any class or description of \r\n                                              goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of subsection (1), \r\n                                              regulations may provide for&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the form of contracts,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) limiting the rate of interest \r\n                                              and other charges,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the minimum deposit to be paid \r\n                                              by a buyer,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the maximum period of payment, \r\n                                              and the amount and frequency of \r\n                                              instalments or rentals,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) the appropriation of payments \r\n                                              as between two or more contracts \r\n                                              between the same seller and buyer,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) the information to be given in \r\n                                              any advertisement or announcement \r\n                                              published or made in any form or \r\n                                              manner whatsoever relating to \r\n                                              goods for sale by way of \r\n                                              hire-purchase regarding the terms \r\n                                              upon which the goods will be sold,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) the inclusion in any such \r\n                                              advertisement or announcement of a \r\n                                              statement of the price at which \r\n                                              the goods will be sold for cash.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Regulations under this section \r\n                                              may also provide that a person who \r\n                                              sells goods to which the \r\n                                              regulations apply shall not be \r\n                                              entitled to enforce any agreement \r\n                                              for such sale or any right to \r\n                                              recover the goods unless specified \r\n                                              provisions of the regulations are \r\n                                              complied with.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Regulations under this section \r\n                                              may also prescribe whether for \r\n                                              goods generally or for any class \r\n                                              or description of goods, a minimum \r\n                                              percentage for the purposes of \r\n                                              sections 69 and 70 of this Act in \r\n                                              lieu of fifty per cent.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 75&#8212;Application of Part \r\n                                              VIII.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; Subject to subsection (2), \r\n                                              this Part applies to every \r\n                                              contract.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The application of this Part, \r\n                                              or of any provision thereof, may, \r\n                                              in the case of a contract in which \r\n                                              the cash price of the goods \r\n                                              exceeds £G1,000, be excluded by \r\n                                              agreement between the parties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IX&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 76&#8212;Variation of Rights, \r\n                                              Duties and Liabilities.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act, the rights, duties and \r\n                                              liabilities of the parties to a \r\n                                              contract of sale, as laid down in \r\n                                              this Act may, as between the \r\n                                              parties themselves, be varied by \r\n                                              express agreement, or by the \r\n                                              course of dealing between the \r\n                                              parties, or by trade usage, or by \r\n                                              a custom (whether a rule of \r\n                                              customary law or not) which the \r\n                                              parties may be taken to have \r\n                                              agreed to be applicable to the \r\n                                              contract.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 77&#8212;Reasonable Time a \r\n                                              Question of Fact.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where, by this Act, any reference \r\n                                              is made to a reasonable time the \r\n                                              question what is a reasonable time \r\n                                              is a question of fact.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 78&#8212;Application of the Act.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act applies to every contract \r\n                                              of sale of goods made after the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 79&#8212;Act to Bind the \r\n                                              Republic.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act applies to contracts \r\n                                              entered into by or on behalf of \r\n                                              the Republic as it applies to \r\n                                              other contracts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 80&#8212;Savings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The rules of the common law and of \r\n                                              customary law, save in so far as \r\n                                              they are inconsistent with the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act, shall \r\n                                              continue to apply to contracts for \r\n                                              the sale of goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 81&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In this Act, unless the \r\n                                              context otherwise requires&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;action&quot; includes counterclaim and \r\n                                              set-off;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;agreement to sell&quot; has the same \r\n                                              meaning as &quot;sale&quot;;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;ascertained goods&quot; means goods \r\n                                              identified and agreed upon after a \r\n                                              contract of sale is made;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;buyer&quot; shall be construed in \r\n                                              accordance with section 1;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;contract of sale of goods&quot; has \r\n                                              the meaning assigned to it in \r\n                                              section 1;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;delivery&quot; means voluntary \r\n                                              transfer of possession from one \r\n                                              person to another;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;document of title&quot; means any bill \r\n                                              of lading, dock warrant, \r\n                                              warehousekeeper''s certificate and \r\n                                              any other document used in the \r\n                                              ordinary course of business as \r\n                                              proof of the possession or control \r\n                                              of goods, or authorizing or \r\n                                              purporting to authorise, either by \r\n                                              endorsement or delivery, the \r\n                                              possessor of the document to \r\n                                              transfer or receive goods thereby \r\n                                              represented;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;goods&quot; means movable property of \r\n                                              every description, and includes \r\n                                              growing crops or plants and other \r\n                                              things attached to or forming part \r\n                                              of the land which are agreed to be \r\n                                              severed before sale by or under \r\n                                              the contract of sale;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;hire-purchase contract&quot; means a \r\n                                              contract of sale of goods in which \r\n                                              the price is to be paid in five or \r\n                                              more instalments;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;hire-purchase price&quot; means the \r\n                                              total sum payable by the buyer \r\n                                              under a hire-purchase contract in \r\n                                              respect of the goods being sold \r\n                                              excluding any sums payable as a \r\n                                              penalty or as damages or \r\n                                              compensation, but including any \r\n                                              deposit or initial payment, and \r\n                                              any charges for installation of \r\n                                              the goods, paid or payable by the \r\n                                              buyer;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;mercantile agent&quot; means an agent \r\n                                              having in the ordinary course of \r\n                                              his business as an agent authority \r\n                                              to sell goods, or to consign goods \r\n                                              for sale, or to buy goods, or to \r\n                                              raise money on the security of \r\n                                              goods;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;plaintiff&quot; includes defendant in \r\n                                              relation to a counterclaim;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;property&quot; means the general \r\n                                              property in the goods and not \r\n                                              merely a special property;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;quality of goods&quot; includes their \r\n                                              state or condition;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;sale&quot; means a contract of sale of \r\n                                              goods;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;seller&quot; shall be construed in \r\n                                              accordance with section 1;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;specific goods&quot; means goods \r\n                                              identified and agreed upon at the \r\n                                              time a contract of sale is made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A person is insolvent within \r\n                                              the meaning of this Act if he has \r\n                                              ceased to pay his debts in the \r\n                                              ordinary course of business, or \r\n                                              cannot pay his debts as they \r\n                                              become due.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Goods are in &quot;a deliverable \r\n                                              state&quot; within the meaning of this \r\n                                              Act when they are in such a state \r\n                                              that the buyer would under the \r\n                                              contract be bound to take delivery \r\n                                              of them.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 82&#8212;Repeal.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Hire Purchase Act, 1958 \r\n                                              (No.55) is repealed but shall \r\n                                              continue to apply to contracts \r\n                                              made before the commencement of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Section 17 of the Auction \r\n                                              Sales Ordinance (Cap. 196) shall \r\n                                              not apply to the sale of goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 83&#8212;Statutes Ceasing to \r\n                                              Apply.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The enactments indicated in the \r\n                                              Second Schedule to this Act shall, \r\n                                              in so far as they apply in Ghana, \r\n                                              cease to apply to the extent \r\n                                              indicated in the third column of \r\n                                              the Schedule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 84&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall come into operation \r\n                                              three months after the date of \r\n                                              assent.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FIRST SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 66.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              NOTICE TO BE INCLUDED IN NOTE OR \r\n                                              MEMORANDUM OF HIRE-PURCHASE \r\n                                              AGREEMENT NOTICE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Right of Buyer to Terminate \r\n                                              Agreement</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The buyer may put an end to \r\n                                              this agreement by returning the \r\n                                              goods to the seller.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. He must then pay any \r\n                                              instalments which are in arrears \r\n                                              at the time when he returns the \r\n                                              goods. If, when he has paid those \r\n                                              instalments, the total amount \r\n                                              which he has paid under the \r\n                                              contract is less than (here insert \r\n                                              the minimum amount which the buyer \r\n                                              is required to pay in accordance \r\n                                              with the provisions of section 68 \r\n                                              of Act), he must also pay enough \r\n                                              to make up that sum.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. The buyer should see whether \r\n                                              this agreement contains provisions \r\n                                              allowing him to put an end to the \r\n                                              agreement on terms more favourable \r\n                                              to him than those just mentioned. \r\n                                              If it does, he may put an end to \r\n                                              the agreement on those terms.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Restriction of Owner''s Right to \r\n                                              Recover Goods</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. After (here insert a figure \r\n                                              equal to fifty per cent or other \r\n                                              prescribed percentage of the \r\n                                              hire-purchase price) has been \r\n                                              paid, then, unless the buyer has \r\n                                              himself put an end to the \r\n                                              agreement, the seller cannot take \r\n                                              them back from the buyer without \r\n                                              the buyer''s consent unless the \r\n                                              seller obtains an order of the \r\n                                              court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. If the seller applies to the \r\n                                              court for such an order the court \r\n                                              may, if it thinks it just to do \r\n                                              so, allow the buyer to keep either \r\n                                              &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the whole of the goods on \r\n                                              condition that the buyer&nbsp; pays the \r\n                                              balance of the price in the manner \r\n                                              ordered by the court; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a fair proportion of the goods \r\n                                              having regard to what the buyer \r\n                                              has already paid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SECOND SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              STATUTES CEASING TO APPLY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Session and Chapter&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Subject Matter &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Extent of \r\n                                              Cesser&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1&nbsp; Jac. 1, c. 21 \r\n                                              (1603)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Brokers&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The \r\n                                              whole Act.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4&nbsp; Geo. 4, c. 83 \r\n                                              (1823)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Factors&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The \r\n                                              whole Act&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6&nbsp; Geo. 4, c. 94 \r\n                                              (1825)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Factors &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The \r\n                                              whole Act. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5&nbsp; and 6 Vict., c. 39 \r\n                                              (1842)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Mercantile Agents&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The whole \r\n                                              Act.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19 and 20 Vict.,c. 97 \r\n                                              (1856)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Mercantile Law </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 180.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Amendment)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sections 1 \r\n                                              and 2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n        <tr>\r\n          <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="777" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center">\r\n              </table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 137');
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(89, 'STATE LANDS ACT, 1962 (ACT 125)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1332" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              STATE LANDS ACT, 1962 (ACT 125)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT&nbsp; OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1.&nbsp; Acquisition.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2.&nbsp; Publication of instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Determination by High Court.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4.&nbsp; Claims and compensation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4A. Appeals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5.&nbsp; Leases and licences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6.&nbsp; Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7.&nbsp; Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8.&nbsp; Repeals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9.&nbsp; Saving.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIFTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE STATE LANDS ACT, 1962</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to provide for the \r\n                                              acquisition of land in the \r\n                                              national interest and other \r\n                                              purposes connected therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 14th June, 1962</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Acquisition.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Whenever it appears to the \r\n                                              President in the public interest \r\n                                              so to do, he may, by executive \r\n                                              instrument, declare any land \r\n                                              specified in the instrument, other \r\n                                              than land subject to the \r\n                                              Administration of Lands Act, 1962 \r\n                                              (Act 123), to be land required in \r\n                                              the public interest; and \r\n                                              accordingly on the making of the \r\n                                              instrument it shall be lawful for \r\n                                              any person, acting in that behalf \r\n                                              and subject to a month''s notice in \r\n                                              writing to enter the land so \r\n                                              declared for any purpose \r\n                                              incidental to the declaration so \r\n                                              made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that where the National \r\n                                              Liberation Council is satisfied \r\n                                              that special circumstances exist \r\n                                              by reason of which it appears to \r\n                                              the Council to be expedient that \r\n                                              any particular land which is \r\n                                              subject to the Administration of \r\n                                              Lands Act, 1962 (Act 123) should \r\n                                              be declared under this subsection \r\n                                              to be land required in the public \r\n                                              interest, the Council may by \r\n                                              writing declare that it is so \r\n                                              satisfied and thereupon it shall \r\n                                              be lawful for the said land to be \r\n                                              declared under this subsection to \r\n                                              be land required in the public \r\n                                              interest and the Administration of \r\n                                              Lands Act, 1962 shall not apply to \r\n                                              any such land in respect of which \r\n                                              an executive instrument has been \r\n                                              made in accordance with this \r\n                                              subsection.[As inserted by the \r\n                                              State Lands Act, 1962 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1968 (NLCD 234) ]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Publication of \r\n                                              Instrument.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              copy of the instrument made under \r\n                                              the preceding section shall,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; be served personally on any \r\n                                              person having an interest in the \r\n                                              land; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; be left with any person in \r\n                                              occupation of the land; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; be served on the traditional \r\n                                              authority of the area of \r\n                                              acquisition which shall request \r\n                                              the Chief to notify the people of \r\n                                              the area concerned; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) be affixed at a convenient \r\n                                              place on the land; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) be published on three \r\n                                              consecutive occasions in a \r\n                                              newspaper circulating in the \r\n                                              district where the land is \r\n                                              situated and in such other manner \r\n                                              as the Commissioner may direct.[As \r\n                                              substituted by State Lands \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1979 (AFRCD \r\n                                              62), s.(i)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) An instrument made under the \r\n                                              preceding subsection may contain \r\n                                              particulars in respect of the date \r\n                                              on which the land so declared \r\n                                              shall be surrendered and any other \r\n                                              matter incidental or conducive to \r\n                                              the attainment of the objects of \r\n                                              the instrument including an \r\n                                              assessment in respect of the \r\n                                              compensation that may be paid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) On the publication of an \r\n                                              instrument made under this \r\n                                              section, the land shall, without \r\n                                              any further assurance than this \r\n                                              subsection, vest in the President \r\n                                              on behalf of the Republic, free \r\n                                              from any encumbrance whatsoever.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Determination by High \r\n                                              Court.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to section 4, the High \r\n                                              Court shall determine the rights \r\n                                              or interest of any person,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) where there is a dispute as to \r\n                                              the right or interest claimed by \r\n                                              reason of conflicting claims or \r\n                                              interest,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) where the person is \r\n                                              dissatisfied with the compensation \r\n                                              assessed by the Lands \r\n                                              Commission.[As Substituted by the \r\n                                              State Lands (Amendment) Act, 2000 \r\n                                              (Act 586), s.1] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Claims and Compensation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person who claims a right \r\n                                              or has an interest in any land \r\n                                              subject to an instrument made \r\n                                              under section 1 of this Act or \r\n                                              whose right or interest in any \r\n                                              such land is affected in any \r\n                                              manner shall, within six months \r\n                                              from the date of the publication \r\n                                              of the instrument made under \r\n                                              section 1, submit in writing to \r\n                                              the Lands Commission&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) particulars of his claim or \r\n                                              interest in the land;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the manner in which his claim \r\n                                              or interest has been affected by \r\n                                              the executive instrument issued \r\n                                              under this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the extent of any damage done; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the amount of compensation \r\n                                              claimed and the basis for the \r\n                                              calculation of the compensation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Lands Commission shall \r\n                                              upon receipt of claim for \r\n                                              compensation under subsection (1) \r\n                                              cause to be assessed the payment \r\n                                              of fair and adequate compensation \r\n                                              by the government for the land \r\n                                              acquired to the owner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; In assessing the compensation \r\n                                              for land under subsection (2) \r\n                                              regard shall be had to&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the market or replacement \r\n                                              value of the land;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the cost of disturbance or any \r\n                                              other damage suffered thereby; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the benefits to be derived by \r\n                                              the people of the area in which \r\n                                              the land is situated from the use \r\n                                              for which the land is acquired.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Subject to the Constitution, \r\n                                              where a compulsory acquisition or \r\n                                              possession of land effected under \r\n                                              this Act involves displacement of \r\n                                              any inhabitants, the Lands \r\n                                              Commission or such other \r\n                                              government agency as the President \r\n                                              shall direct shall settle the \r\n                                              displaced inhabitants on suitable \r\n                                              alternative land with due regard \r\n                                              for the economic well-being and \r\n                                              social and cultural values of the \r\n                                              inhabitants concerned.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) In assessing compensation \r\n                                              under this Act no account shall be \r\n                                              taken of any improvement on the \r\n                                              land made within two years \r\n                                              previous to the date of \r\n                                              publication of the instrument made \r\n                                              under section 1 of this Act unless \r\n                                              the improvement was made in good \r\n                                              faith and not made in \r\n                                              contemplation of acquisition under \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Where compensation for land is \r\n                                              assessed but cannot be paid owing \r\n                                              to a dispute, Government shall, \r\n                                              pending the final determination of \r\n                                              the matter, lodge the accrued \r\n                                              amount in an interest&#8212;yielding \r\n                                              escrow account and the amount \r\n                                              together with the interest shall \r\n                                              be released to the person entitled \r\n                                              upon the final determination of \r\n                                              the matter. [As Substituted by the \r\n                                              State Lands (Amendment) Act, 2000 \r\n                                              (Act 586), s.2]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4A&#8212;Appeals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person who is aggrieved by \r\n                                              a decision of the High Court on \r\n                                              any matter dealt with by the High \r\n                                              Court under this Act may appeal \r\n                                              against the decision to the Court \r\n                                              of Appeal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Court of Appeal may upon \r\n                                              hearing the appeal confirm, \r\n                                              reverse or vary the decision of \r\n                                              the High Court and may make such \r\n                                              other order as it think fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The rules applicable to a \r\n                                              civil appeal before the Court of \r\n                                              Appeal shall apply to an appeal \r\n                                              brought under this section. [As \r\n                                              inserted by the State Lands \r\n                                              (Amendment) Act, 2000 (Act 586), \r\n                                              s.3]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Leases and Licences.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Lands Commission may grant a \r\n                                              lease or a licence in respect of \r\n                                              any land acquired under this Act. \r\n                                              [As Substituted by the State Lands \r\n                                              (Amendment) Act, 2000 (Act 586), \r\n                                              s.4]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister may, by legislative \r\n                                              instrument, make Regulations \r\n                                              prescribing fees to be paid under \r\n                                              this Act and for the better \r\n                                              carrying into effect of the \r\n                                              principles of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act, unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;cost of disturbance&quot; means the \r\n                                              reasonable expenses incidental to \r\n                                              any necessary change of residence \r\n                                              or place of business by any person \r\n                                              having a right or interest in the \r\n                                              land;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;market value&quot; means the sum of \r\n                                              money which the land might have \r\n                                              been expected to realise if sold \r\n                                              in the open market by a willing \r\n                                              seller at the time of the \r\n                                              declaration made under section 1 \r\n                                              of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for lands;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;other damage&quot; means damage \r\n                                              sustained by any person having a \r\n                                              right or interest in the land or \r\n                                              in adjoining land at the date of \r\n                                              the declaration made under section \r\n                                              1 of this Act, by reason of \r\n                                              severance from or injurious \r\n                                              affection to any adjoining land;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;replacement value&quot; means the \r\n                                              value of the land where there is \r\n                                              no demand or market for the land \r\n                                              by reason of the situation or of \r\n                                              the purpose for which the land was \r\n                                              devoted at the time of the \r\n                                              declaration made under section 1 \r\n                                              of this Act, and shall be the \r\n                                              amount required for reasonable \r\n                                              re-instatement equivalent to the \r\n                                              condition of the land at the date \r\n                                              of the said declaration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Repeals</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial">.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The provisions of sections 4 \r\n                                              to 18 of the State Property and \r\n                                              Contracts Act, 1960 (CA 6) in so \r\n                                              far as they relate to land shall \r\n                                              cease to have effect.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Housing Schemes \r\n                                              (Acquisition of Land) Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 85) is hereby repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The State Lands (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1974 (NRCD 307). [Repealed \r\n                                              by the State Lands (Amendment) \r\n                                              Act, 2000 (Act 586), s.5]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Saving.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Notwithstanding the repeal of the \r\n                                              enactments specified in the \r\n                                              preceding section, any subsidiary \r\n                                              legislation made thereunder and in \r\n                                              force immediately prior to the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act, shall \r\n                                              continue to have effect as if made \r\n                                              under</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              STATE LANDS ACT, 1962 (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              DECREE, 1968 (NLCD 234)1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              STATE LANDS (AMENDMENT) DECREE, \r\n                                              1979 (AFRCD 62)2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              STATE LANDS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2000 \r\n                                              (ACT 586)3</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n        <tr>\r\n          <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="777" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center">\r\n              </table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 125');
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(90, 'STATE PROPERTY AND CONTRACTS ACT, 1960 (CA 6)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1356" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              STATE PROPERTY AND CONTRACTS ACT, \r\n                                              1960 (CA 6)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;STATE PROPERTY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Vesting of property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. References to the Crown.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Power to acquire and vest \r\n                                              property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Acquisition for public \r\n                                              purposes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Acquisition for industrial \r\n                                              purposes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6.&nbsp; Lease by Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7.&nbsp; Parties entitled to sell and \r\n                                              convey.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8.&nbsp; Claims.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9.&nbsp; Settlement of claims.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10.&nbsp; Appeals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11.&nbsp; Rules for compensation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12.&nbsp; Payment of compensation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13.&nbsp; Form of conveyances.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14.&nbsp; Certificate of title.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15.&nbsp; Execution and custody of \r\n                                              instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Parties in possession as \r\n                                              owners deemed entitled to \r\n                                              property. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. President exonerated upon \r\n                                              payment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Entry for survey.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;CONTRACTS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Power to contract.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Tender for works and supplies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Forms of contracts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Retention by Archivist.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24. Penalties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Legal proceedings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. Repeals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form A&#8212;Conveyance</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form B&#8212;Certificate of title </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form C&#8212;Warrant of possession</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;ACT OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY \r\n                                              OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE STATE PROPERTY AND CONTRACTS \r\n                                              ACT, 1960</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to make provision for the \r\n                                              vesting of all property hitherto \r\n                                              vested in Her Majesty the Queen in \r\n                                              the Republic of Ghana and other \r\n                                              matters connected therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF PASSING: 29th June, 1960</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              WHEREAS by section 2 of the \r\n                                              Constituent Assembly and \r\n                                              Plebiscite Act, 1960 (No. 1) this \r\n                                              Constituent Assembly is authorised \r\n                                              to enact such provisions for or in \r\n                                              connection with the establishment \r\n                                              of a new Constitution as it thinks \r\n                                              fit:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AND WHEREAS it is expedient to \r\n                                              enact the provisions hereinafter \r\n                                              appearing in consequence of the \r\n                                              enactment of the Constitution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              NOW THEREFORE be it enacted by the \r\n                                              Constituent Assembly as follows:&#8212;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;STATE PROPERTY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Vesting of Property.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any property vested in the \r\n                                              Crown as trustee for the Public \r\n                                              Service of Ghana and whether \r\n                                              situate in or outside Ghana shall, \r\n                                              on the coming into operation of \r\n                                              this Act, vest without any further \r\n                                              authority than this section in the \r\n                                              President in trust for and on \r\n                                              behalf of the people of Ghana for \r\n                                              the Public Service of the Republic \r\n                                              of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In any proceedings relating to \r\n                                              property where the Crown is a \r\n                                              party, pending before a Court of \r\n                                              competent jurisdiction at the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act, there is \r\n                                              hereby substituted for the Crown \r\n                                              the Attorney-General for and on \r\n                                              behalf of the Republic.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;References to the Crown</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where in any Act provision is made \r\n                                              that property shall be controlled \r\n                                              or conveyed or surrendered to and \r\n                                              become vested absolutely or \r\n                                              otherwise in, and held by the \r\n                                              Crown that property shall vest in \r\n                                              the President in trust for the \r\n                                              Public Service of the Republic of \r\n                                              Ghana; and accordingly in any such \r\n                                              Act references to &quot;Her Majesty the \r\n                                              Queen&quot;, &quot;Her Majesty the Queen in \r\n                                              trust for the Public service of \r\n                                              Ghana&quot;, &quot;Crown ownership&quot; and&nbsp; \r\n                                              &#8220;the Governor-General&#8221; shall be \r\n                                              construed as a reference to &quot;the \r\n                                              President in trust for the Public \r\n                                              Service of the Republic&quot; or \r\n                                              &quot;Republic ownership&quot; as the case \r\n                                              may be. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Power to Acquire and \r\n                                              Vest Property.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Whenever it is provided in any Act \r\n                                              that the crown may or shall \r\n                                              acquire property and then vest the \r\n                                              property so acquired in an \r\n                                              authority that power shall, on the \r\n                                              coming into operation of this Act \r\n                                              be exercisable by the President.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Acquisition for Public \r\n                                              Purposes. </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where any property is required \r\n                                              for the Public Service the \r\n                                              President may by notice in the \r\n                                              Gazette declare that the property \r\n                                              specified in the notice is \r\n                                              required for the Public Service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Whenever a declaration is made \r\n                                              under the provisions of the \r\n                                              preceding subsection the Minister \r\n                                              may enter into agreement with the \r\n                                              owner and all parties having an \r\n                                              estate or interest in the property \r\n                                              for the absolute purchase for a \r\n                                              consideration in money, or for \r\n                                              some other property in exchange, \r\n                                              of the property so required.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Minister shall on the \r\n                                              conclusion of the agreement made \r\n                                              in pursuance of the provisions of \r\n                                              the immediately preceding \r\n                                              subsection pay reasonable \r\n                                              compensation for the property and \r\n                                              accordingly on the payment of the \r\n                                              compensation the property so \r\n                                              required shall become vested in \r\n                                              the President in trust for the \r\n                                              Public Service of the Republic.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A copy of the notice published \r\n                                              in the Gazette may&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) be served personally on the \r\n                                              person entitled to sell or \r\n                                              interested in the property; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) be left at his usual place of \r\n                                              abode or business with some inmate \r\n                                              thereof; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and shall, in any case, be affixed \r\n                                              at a convenient place on the \r\n                                              property specified in the notice \r\n                                              and published on three consecutive \r\n                                              occasions in a newspaper \r\n                                              circulating in the district where \r\n                                              the property is situate. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Acquisition for \r\n                                              Industrial Purposes.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the purposes of industrial \r\n                                              development, the Minister may by \r\n                                              executive instrument declare any \r\n                                              area of land in a Region to be an \r\n                                              industrial area; and accordingly \r\n                                              on the making of an instrument by \r\n                                              the Minister, the provisions of \r\n                                              this Part of this Act shall apply \r\n                                              to such area of land as if the \r\n                                              instrument made under this section \r\n                                              had been a declaration made under \r\n                                              section 4 of this Act. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Lease by Minister.\r\n                                              </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister may enter into a \r\n                                              lease with any person desirous of \r\n                                              setting up an industrial \r\n                                              undertaking in any area of land \r\n                                              acquired by Government under the \r\n                                              provisions of the immediately \r\n                                              preceding section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Parties Entitled to Sell \r\n                                              and Convey.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person seised, possessed \r\n                                              or entitled to any property or any \r\n                                              estate or interest therein \r\n                                              required for the Public Service of \r\n                                              the Republic, may sell, grant or \r\n                                              convey the property or estate or \r\n                                              interest therein to the Minister.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The power to sell, grant and \r\n                                              convey the property may be \r\n                                              exercisable by the person \r\n                                              concerned for and on behalf of \r\n                                              himself and for and on behalf of \r\n                                              his heirs, executors, \r\n                                              administrators and successors and \r\n                                              on behalf of any person entitled \r\n                                              in reversion, remainder or \r\n                                              expectancy after him or in \r\n                                              defeasance of the estate of such \r\n                                              person and any other person seised \r\n                                              or possessed of the property upon \r\n                                              any species of trust to the use of \r\n                                              persons under a disability or \r\n                                              otherwise for and on behalf of the \r\n                                              cestuis que trust to the same \r\n                                              extent as the cestuis que trust \r\n                                              could respectively have done if \r\n                                              there had been no disability.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Claims. </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) On the publication of a \r\n                                              declaration under the provisions \r\n                                              of section 4 of this Act any \r\n                                              person having an interest or claim \r\n                                              in the property shall within three \r\n                                              months from the date of the \r\n                                              publication inform in writing the \r\n                                              Chief Lands Officer of the extent \r\n                                              or otherwise of his interest or \r\n                                              claim in the property. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) At the expiration of three \r\n                                              months after the publication of \r\n                                              the said notice the Chief Lands \r\n                                              Officer shall, within six months \r\n                                              of the expiration, agree with the \r\n                                              parties concerned for the \r\n                                              conveyance to the Minister of the \r\n                                              property and the amount to be paid \r\n                                              in respect of the property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Settlement of Claims.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where there is a dispute as to the \r\n                                              ownership of the property, the \r\n                                              insufficiency of evidence of \r\n                                              ownership, the amount to be paid \r\n                                              in respect of the property or \r\n                                              separate and conflicting claims in \r\n                                              the same property and every other \r\n                                              case of disputed interest or title \r\n                                              the following provisions shall \r\n                                              apply, that is to say&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a Judge of the High Court of \r\n                                              Justice shall have power to hear \r\n                                              and determine the ownership and \r\n                                              all other disputes or matters \r\n                                              relating to the interest or title \r\n                                              in the property;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the Chief Lands Officer shall, \r\n                                              not less than seven days before \r\n                                              the time appointed for the hearing \r\n                                              and determination of the claim, \r\n                                              serve a notice in writing upon any \r\n                                              person who may have claimed any \r\n                                              interest in respect of the \r\n                                              property, calling upon him to \r\n                                              prove his claim to or interest in, \r\n                                              the property and the value \r\n                                              thereof. Where the owner of the \r\n                                              property cannot be found the \r\n                                              notice shall be served upon his \r\n                                              agent or representative and if the \r\n                                              agent or the representative cannot \r\n                                              be found the notice shall be fixed \r\n                                              to a conspicuous part of the \r\n                                              property and to the Court House of \r\n                                              the district;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) where any party to the \r\n                                              proceedings under this section \r\n                                              fails to appear for the hearing a \r\n                                              decision may be given ex parte \r\n                                              upon the hearing of evidence \r\n                                              adduced on behalf of the Minister \r\n                                              and the decision shall be deemed \r\n                                              to be a decision given after a \r\n                                              full hearing in the presence of \r\n                                              all parties;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) a decision given under the \r\n                                              provisions of this section shall \r\n                                              be subject to appeal to the \r\n                                              Supreme Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Appeals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A person aggrieved by the \r\n                                              decision of a Judge under the \r\n                                              provisions of the immediately \r\n                                              preceding section shall give \r\n                                              notice of appeal within seven days \r\n                                              from the date of the decision to \r\n                                              any party affected by the \r\n                                              decision.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Appeals under this section \r\n                                              shall be conducted in accordance \r\n                                              with the provisions relating to \r\n                                              appeals from the High Court of \r\n                                              justice to the Supreme Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Rules for Compensation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In determining the amount of \r\n                                              compensation to be awarded, for \r\n                                              property acquired under the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act, the Court \r\n                                              shall act in accordance with the \r\n                                              following rules&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Compensation shall be awarded \r\n                                              in respect of&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the market value of the \r\n                                              property acquired which shall be \r\n                                              taken to be the amount which the \r\n                                              property might have been expected \r\n                                              to realize if sold in the open \r\n                                              market by a willing seller at the \r\n                                              date of the declaration under \r\n                                              section 4 of this Act; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any damage sustained at the \r\n                                              time of and by reason of the \r\n                                              acquisition by any person having \r\n                                              an interest in the property \r\n                                              acquired by reason of the severing \r\n                                              of such property from any other \r\n                                              property of such person;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) any damage sustained at the \r\n                                              time of and by reason of the \r\n                                              acquisition by any person having \r\n                                              an interest in the property \r\n                                              acquired by reason of such \r\n                                              acquisition injuriously affecting \r\n                                              any other adjoining property in \r\n                                              which such person has an interest;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the reasonable expenses \r\n                                              incidental to any changes of \r\n                                              residence or place of business of \r\n                                              any person having an interest in \r\n                                              the property acquired made \r\n                                              necessary by the acquisition:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that where the property \r\n                                              is, and but for the acquisition \r\n                                              would continue to be, devoted to a \r\n                                              purpose of such a nature that \r\n                                              there is no general demand or \r\n                                              market for property for that \r\n                                              purpose, the compensation may, if \r\n                                              the Court is satisfied that \r\n                                              reinstatement in some other place \r\n                                              is bona fide intended, be assessed \r\n                                              on the basis of the reasonable \r\n                                              cost of equivalent reinstatement, \r\n                                              and in every such case \r\n                                              compensation shall not be awarded \r\n                                              under the provisions of \r\n                                              sub-paragraph (a) or (d) of this \r\n                                              paragraph, but shall, where the \r\n                                              circumstances permit be awarded \r\n                                              under the provisions of \r\n                                              sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) of this \r\n                                              paragraph;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the reasonable expenses \r\n                                              incurred in the employment of a \r\n                                              person qualified in land valuation \r\n                                              and costing of buildings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In determining the \r\n                                              compensation to be awarded, the \r\n                                              Court shall not take into \r\n                                              consideration any increase in the \r\n                                              market value of the property \r\n                                              acquired by reason of any \r\n                                              improvements made thereto within a \r\n                                              period of two years immediately \r\n                                              preceding the date of the \r\n                                              declaration under section 4 of \r\n                                              this Act, unless it be proved that \r\n                                              such improvement was made bona \r\n                                              fide and not in contemplation of \r\n                                              proceedings being taken for the \r\n                                              acquisition of the property under \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Payment of \r\n                                              Compensation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The decision of the Court \r\n                                              respecting compensation, or in \r\n                                              case of disputed interest or title \r\n                                              as aforesaid or of the Supreme \r\n                                              Court where appeal has been taken, \r\n                                              shall be final and conclusive as \r\n                                              respects all persons whatsoever.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any compensation awarded under \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act may be \r\n                                              paid over to the person who shall \r\n                                              appear by the judgment of the \r\n                                              Court or of the Supreme Court \r\n                                              where appeal has been taken to \r\n                                              have the best right thereto, and \r\n                                              such payment shall, as concerns \r\n                                              the President, operate as complete \r\n                                              discharge and acquittance of such \r\n                                              compensation and of all claims in \r\n                                              respect of the property or any \r\n                                              interest therein, but shall not \r\n                                              hinder any subsequent proceedings \r\n                                              at the instance of any person \r\n                                              having or alleging better right \r\n                                              thereto as against the person to \r\n                                              whom such payment may have been \r\n                                              made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Form of Conveyances. \r\n                                              Form A. </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Conveyances of property \r\n                                              purchased under this Act may be in \r\n                                              the Form A of the Schedule to this \r\n                                              Act, or as near thereto as may be, \r\n                                              or by deed in any other form which \r\n                                              the President may think fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every conveyance made \r\n                                              according to the form in the \r\n                                              Schedule to this Act, or as near \r\n                                              thereto as may be, shall vest the \r\n                                              property thereby conveyed in the \r\n                                              President in trust for the Public \r\n                                              Service and shall operate to bar \r\n                                              and to destroy all other estates, \r\n                                              rights, titles, remainders, \r\n                                              reversions, limitations, trusts, \r\n                                              and interests whatsoever of and in \r\n                                              the property comprised in such \r\n                                              conveyance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Certificate of Title.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Schedule, Form B.</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chief Lands Officer on behalf \r\n                                              of the President shall, at any \r\n                                              time on production in the High \r\n                                              Court of a conveyance to any \r\n                                              property or at any time after the \r\n                                              date of the declaration under \r\n                                              section 4 of this Act be entitled \r\n                                              to receive a certificate of title \r\n                                              to the property described in the \r\n                                              said conveyance or declaration \r\n                                              which certificate may be in the \r\n                                              Form B of the Schedule, and shall \r\n                                              have the following effects and \r\n                                              qualities, that is to say&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) the certificate shall not be \r\n                                              questioned or defensible by reason \r\n                                              of any irregularity or error or \r\n                                              defect in the declaration, or the \r\n                                              want of declaration, or of any \r\n                                              other irregularity, error, or \r\n                                              defect in the proceedings previous \r\n                                              to the obtaining of the \r\n                                              certificate;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) it shall confer on the \r\n                                              President and his successors in \r\n                                              office to whom the certificate \r\n                                              shall be given, an absolute and \r\n                                              indefeasible right to the property \r\n                                              comprised or referred to therein \r\n                                              against all persons, and free from \r\n                                              all adverse or competing rights, \r\n                                              titles, interests, trusts, claims, \r\n                                              and demands whatsoever; </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Schedule, Form C</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial">.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) if possession of the property \r\n                                              is withheld by any person, the \r\n                                              Chief Lands Officer on behalf of \r\n                                              the President may obtain from any \r\n                                              Court a warrant of possession \r\n                                              (which may be in the Form C of the \r\n                                              Schedule) under which any officer \r\n                                              of the Sheriff or constable may \r\n                                              forth-with eject any person so \r\n                                              withholding possession, and the \r\n                                              President, or any person \r\n                                              authorised by him, may enter upon \r\n                                              and possess the said property;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) the production of the \r\n                                              certificate of title shall be held \r\n                                              in every Court to be an absolute \r\n                                              bar and estoppel to any action or \r\n                                              proceeding by which the right of \r\n                                              the President to the property \r\n                                              therein described is sought to be \r\n                                              impugned or questioned: </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that the Court, on \r\n                                              application by motion by the Chief \r\n                                              Lands Officer on behalf of the \r\n                                              President, may for good cause \r\n                                              shown and on such terms as to the \r\n                                              Court may seem just, rescind or \r\n                                              vary any certificate of title \r\n                                              which the Court may have granted, \r\n                                              or which may have been granted by \r\n                                              the Regional Commissioner under \r\n                                              the provisions of the \r\n                                              Administration (Ashanti) Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap.110); whereupon the \r\n                                              certificate of title shall become \r\n                                              void of effect or shall have \r\n                                              effect as so varied, as the case \r\n                                              may be. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              certified true copy of an order \r\n                                              made by the Court under this \r\n                                              proviso shall be deemed to be a \r\n                                              &quot;Judge''s Certificate&quot; for the \r\n                                              purposes of the Land Registry \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 133).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Execution and Custody \r\n                                              of Instruments. </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) All documents, grants, \r\n                                              conveyances, leases and other \r\n                                              instruments whereby property is \r\n                                              affected which is or have been or \r\n                                              which may become vested in the \r\n                                              President or in any person in \r\n                                              trust for the Public Service or \r\n                                              whereby any title to property is \r\n                                              or has been or may become vested \r\n                                              in the President or in any person \r\n                                              in trust for the Public Service \r\n                                              shall be deemed to be duly and \r\n                                              validly executed if they bear the \r\n                                              seal of the Lands Department and \r\n                                              are signed by the Minister or some \r\n                                              other person authorised by him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; All such documents, grants, \r\n                                              conveyances, leases and other \r\n                                              instruments, or the counterpart or \r\n                                              duplicate original thereof, as the \r\n                                              case may be, shall be retained by \r\n                                              the Chief Lands Officer in the \r\n                                              records of the Lands Department.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; A copy of any such document, \r\n                                              grant, conveyance, lease or other \r\n                                              instrument certified under the \r\n                                              hand of the Chief Lands Officer or \r\n                                              an Assistant Chief Lands Officer \r\n                                              to be a true copy shall be \r\n                                              admissible in evidence in all \r\n                                              causes and matters and between all \r\n                                              persons and parties to the same \r\n                                              extent as the original would be \r\n                                              admissible; and the production of \r\n                                              the original in evidence shall not \r\n                                              be necessary except by order of \r\n                                              the Court made for special cause.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16&#8212; Parties in Possession \r\n                                              as Owners Deemed Entitled to \r\n                                              Property.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In all cases where any question \r\n                                              shall arise respecting the title \r\n                                              to any property to be acquired \r\n                                              under this Act the parties in \r\n                                              possession of the property as \r\n                                              being the owners thereof at the \r\n                                              time of the property being \r\n                                              purchased or taken shall be deemed \r\n                                              to have&nbsp; been lawfully entitled to \r\n                                              the property unless the contrary \r\n                                              be shown to the satisfaction of \r\n                                              the Court, and the parties shall \r\n                                              be entitled to receive the \r\n                                              purchase money or compensation for \r\n                                              the property, but without \r\n                                              prejudice to any subsequent \r\n                                              proceedings against the parties at \r\n                                              the instance of any person having \r\n                                              or alleging a better right \r\n                                              thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;President Exonerated \r\n                                              Upon Payment.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The payment to and the receipt of \r\n                                              any person to whom any purchase \r\n                                              money or compensation shall be \r\n                                              paid, shall effectually discharge \r\n                                              the President from seeing to the \r\n                                              application or being answerable \r\n                                              for the mis-application thereof:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided always that where any \r\n                                              person is in possession in virtue \r\n                                              of any estate less than an estate \r\n                                              of inheritance or in any fiduciary \r\n                                              or representative character, the \r\n                                              President may cause payment of the \r\n                                              purchase money or compensation to \r\n                                              be made to such persons, and in \r\n                                              such proportions and instalments, \r\n                                              and after such notices as the \r\n                                              Court may direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Entry for Survey.\r\n                                              </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The President, or any person \r\n                                              authorised by him, may enter upon \r\n                                              any property for the purpose of \r\n                                              surveying or taking levels of, or \r\n                                              of inspecting or valuing the \r\n                                              property, or boring to ascertain \r\n                                              the nature of the soil or other \r\n                                              purposes of the like nature, the \r\n                                              owner or occupier being entitled \r\n                                              to compensation for actual damage, \r\n                                              if any, occasioned in the course \r\n                                              of such operations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In case of any dispute \r\n                                              respecting the amount of such \r\n                                              compensation, it shall be \r\n                                              determined by the assessment of a \r\n                                              lands officer of the Lands \r\n                                              Department and the assessment \r\n                                              shall be referred to the Minister \r\n                                              whose decision thereon shall be \r\n                                              final. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Regulations. </span>\r\n                                              </b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The President may by legislative \r\n                                              instrument make regulations for \r\n                                              carrying into effect the \r\n                                              provisions of this Part of this \r\n                                              Act. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Amended by Act 123 s. 32)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;CONTRACTS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Power to Contract.\r\n                                              </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) It shall be lawful for the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for a subject \r\n                                              or department, or some other \r\n                                              person authorised by him, to \r\n                                              execute a contract for and on \r\n                                              behalf of the Republic on any \r\n                                              matter falling within his \r\n                                              portfolio.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 21&#8212;Tender for Works and \r\n                                              Supplies. </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The President may by legislative \r\n                                              instrument make regulations \r\n                                              relating to&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the setting up and powers of \r\n                                              advisory tender boards;&nbsp; </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the procedure to be followed \r\n                                              by advisory tender boards in the \r\n                                              award of tenders;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the procedure for the signing \r\n                                              of contracts; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the numbering, distribution \r\n                                              and payments due under contracts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 22&#8212;Forms of Contracts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Attorney-General may draw \r\n                                              up standard forms of agreement and \r\n                                              conditions for contracts and \r\n                                              accordingly where such forms are \r\n                                              applicable they shall be used in \r\n                                              all contracts for the Republic \r\n                                              without reference to the \r\n                                              Attorney-General but with the \r\n                                              approval of the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All contracts may be examined \r\n                                              and approved by the \r\n                                              Attorney-General unless otherwise \r\n                                              provided by the provisions of the \r\n                                              preceding subsection.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Retention by Archivist.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The original copy of any \r\n                                              contract or agreement entered into \r\n                                              for and on behalf of the Republic \r\n                                              shall be kept by the Government \r\n                                              Archivist.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A copy of the contract or \r\n                                              agreement certified under the hand \r\n                                              of the Government Archivist to be \r\n                                              a true copy shall be admissible in \r\n                                              evidence in all causes and matters \r\n                                              and between all persons and \r\n                                              parties to the same extent as the \r\n                                              original would be admissible; and \r\n                                              the production of the original in \r\n                                              evidence shall not be necessary \r\n                                              except by order of the Court made \r\n                                              for special cause.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 24&#8212;Penalties. </span></b>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Penalties incurred under a \r\n                                              contract against the Republic \r\n                                              shall be paid under a certificate \r\n                                              of the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Penalties recovered for the \r\n                                              Republic under a contract shall be \r\n                                              paid into the Consolidated Fund \r\n                                              subject to the directions of the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for Finance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 25&#8212;Legal Proceedings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Legal proceedings for or against \r\n                                              the Republic under this Part of \r\n                                              this Act shall be conducted in \r\n                                              accordance with the provisions of \r\n                                              any enactment for the time being \r\n                                              in force.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 26&#8212;Repeals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5 of the Administration \r\n                                              (Northern Region) Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap.111), the Public Lands \r\n                                              Ordinance, (Cap. 134), the Public \r\n                                              Lands (Vesting and Transfer of \r\n                                              Powers) Ordinance (Cap. 135), the \r\n                                              Public Lands (Leasehold) Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 138) and the Land and Native \r\n                                              Rights Ordinance (Cap. 147) are \r\n                                              hereby repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 27&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Crown&quot; includes Her Majesty, and \r\n                                              the Governor-General; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;property&quot; means movable or \r\n                                              immovable property including \r\n                                              lands, buildings and leases;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for lands.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 28&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall come into operation \r\n                                              at the same time as the \r\n                                              Constitution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM A</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 13)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CONVEYANCE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              I, .........................., of \r\n                                              ........................., in \r\n                                              consideration of the sum of&nbsp; \r\n                                              ........................ paid to \r\n                                              me on behalf of the Republic, do \r\n                                              hereby convey to the President and \r\n                                              his successors in office all \r\n                                              [describe the property conveyed] \r\n                                              to hold the same according to the \r\n                                              true intent and meaning of the \r\n                                              State Property and Contracts Act, \r\n                                              1960.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Dated at&nbsp; \r\n                                              ............................. in \r\n                                              the ............................. \r\n                                              Region the \r\n                                              ........................ day of \r\n                                              .... </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ..................................., \r\n                                              19.............</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Witness: M. \r\n                                              N.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Q.R.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM B</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 14)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CERTIFICATE OF TITLE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Seal of Court.)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              It is hereby certified and \r\n                                              declared that, pursuant to the \r\n                                              State Property and Contracts Act, \r\n                                              1960, the title in and to all \r\n                                              [describe the property to be \r\n                                              acquired] is vested in the \r\n                                              President and his successors in \r\n                                              office according to the true \r\n                                              intent and meaning of the said \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Dated at&nbsp; \r\n                                              .............................. in \r\n                                              the .............................. \r\n                                              Region the \r\n                                              ........................day of\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ..........................................., \r\n                                              19 &#8230;..........</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              E. \r\n                                              F.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              A. B.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Registrar.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Judge of the High Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM C</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 14 (3))</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              WARRANT OF POSSESSION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Warrant of Possession.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              To the Sheriff of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Whereas a certificate of title \r\n                                              dated the &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.., day of&nbsp; &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;., \r\n                                              19 &#8230;.., has been issued by the \r\n                                              Court in favour of the President \r\n                                              to that piece of property \r\n                                              described as [insert description]:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              These are therefore to command you \r\n                                              to put the President or any person \r\n                                              employed by him in that behalf in \r\n                                              possession of the said property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Signed by Judge or Magistrate.)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'CA 6');
