{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-goods-and-services-act-1982/section-11C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-goods-and-services-act-1982/section-11C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/29",
  "legislation_title": "Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-goods-and-services-act-1982",
  "path": "section/11C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11C",
  "heading": "Implied terms where transfer is by description.",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where, under a relevant contract for the transfer of goods, the transferor transfers or agrees to transfer the property in the goods by description.\n(2) In such a case there is an implied term that the goods will correspond with the description.\n(3) If the transferor transfers or agrees to transfer the property in the goods by reference to a sample as well as by description it is not sufficient that the bulk of the goods corresponds with the sample if the goods do not also correspond with the description.\n(4) A contract is not prevented from falling within subsection (1) above by reason only that, being exposed for supply, the goods are selected by the transferee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.10.2015) by Consumer Rights Act 2015 (c. 15), s. 100(5), Sch. 1 para. 38(a); S.I. 2015/1630, art. 3(g) (with art. 6(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Pt. IA (ss. 11A-11L) with Pt. heading and cross headings inserted (3.1.1995) by 1994 c. 35, ss. 6, 8(2), Sch. 1 para. 1 (with s. 8(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/29/section/11C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:12:07.828601+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}