Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

MERCANTILE LAW ACT 1962

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act  
   2.      Dictionary  
   3.      Notes  
   3A.     Offences against Act—application of Criminal Code etc  

   PART 2--MERCANTILE AGENTS

   4.      Definitions for pt 2  
   5.      Consignor and consignee  
   6.      Powers of mercantile agent  
   7.      Presumptions  
   8.      Pledge by way of exchange  
   9.      Pledge for existing debt  
   10.     Saving for rights of true owner  
   11.     Saving for common law powers of mercantile agents  

   PART 3--GUARANTORS AND SURETIES

   12.     Consideration for guarantee  
   13.     Surety entitled to stand in place of creditor whose debt etc surety has  

   PART 4--USURY

   14.     Maximum rate of interest  

   PART 5--WRITTEN MEMORANDA

   15.     Debts and contracts of children  
   16.     Representations of character etc  

   PART 6--WAREHOUSE PERSONS' LIENS

   17.     Definitions for pt 6  
   18.     Warehouse person to have lien on goods  
   19.     Charges covered by lien  
   20.     Notice by warehouse person  
   21.     Notice by person depositing goods  
   22.     Power to sell goods  
   28.     Service of notice by warehouse person  
   29.     Notice provisions—substantial compliance  
   31.     Rights not to be affected  
   32.     Sales otherwise prohibited are not authorised by pt 6  
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