Section 54: Interest, etc.

Sale of Goods Act 1979 · 1979 c.54

Part VI: Actions for Breach of the Contract

54(1)

Nothing in this Act affects the right of the buyer or the seller to recover interest or special damages in any case where by law interest or special damages may be recoverable, or to recover money paid where the consideration for the payment of it has failed.

54(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 19 of that Act).

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