Section 36: Buyer not bound to return rejected goods.

Sale of Goods Act 1979 · 1979 c.54

Part IV: Performance of the Contract

36(1)

Unless otherwise agreed, where goods are delivered to the buyer, and he refuses to accept them, having the right to do so, he is not bound to return them to the seller, but it is sufficient if he intimates to the seller that he refuses to accept them.

36(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 20 of that Act).

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