BTB1010 Study Guide - Final Guide: Knitting, Radio Rentals, Road Surface Marking
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In the area of implied terms there was a fair degree of legislative overlap b/w the tpa and goods. Act and the fair trading act: the tpa has now been replaced by the competition and consumer act (cca) which contains the. Australian consumer law: the acl is brought into victorian law through the new australian consumer law and fair. Trading act 2012: the fta limits the operation of the goods act though s31aclfa to matters to which the acl does not cover, the acl is confined to consumer transactions. Therefore ss 17, 18, 19 and 20 of the goods act apply to business to business contracts. That is to contracts for the sale of goods between traders: correspondence with description, merchantable quality. These are the most litigated implied terms; most likely to come up in a dispute over a contract for the sale. Section 18 of goods act sale by description.
