Section 33: Risk where goods are delivered at distant place.

Sale of Goods Act 1979 · 1979 c.54

Part IV: Performance of the Contract

33(1)

Where the seller of goods agrees to deliver them at his own risk at a place other than that where they are when sold, the buyer must nevertheless (unless otherwise agreed) take any risk of deterioration in the goods necessarily incident to the course of transit.

33(2)

This section does not apply to a contract to which Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 applies (but see the provision made about such contracts in section 29 of that Act).

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