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Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Sale of goods - Performance of contract - Rules about delivery

159: Place of delivery

You could also call this:

“Where to pick up what you bought”

When you buy something, you need to know where to get it. If the seller has a shop or office, that’s usually where you’ll pick up what you bought. If the seller doesn’t have a shop, you’ll probably go to their house to get it.

Sometimes, though, you might be buying something special that’s already somewhere else. If both you and the seller know where that thing is when you agree to buy it, that’s where you’ll need to go to get it, instead of the seller’s shop or house.

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Part 3 Sale of goods
Performance of contract: Rules about delivery

159Place of delivery

  1. Apart from a contract referred to in section 158, the place of delivery is—

  2. the seller’s place of business (if the seller has one); or
    1. the seller’s residence (if the seller has no place of business).

      1. However, if the contract is for the sale of specific goods that, to the knowledge of the parties when the contract is made, are in some other place, that place is the place of delivery rather than the place that applies under subsection (1).

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