{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-goods-and-services-act-1982/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-goods-and-services-act-1982/section-5.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/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Implied terms where transfer is by sample.",
  "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 reference to a sample.\n(2) In such a case there is an implied condition—\n(a) that the bulk will correspond with the sample in quality; and\n(b) that the transferee will have a reasonable opportunity of comparing the bulk with the sample; and\n(c) that the goods will be free from any defect, making their quality unsatisfactory, which would not be apparent on reasonable examination of the sample.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) For the purposes of this section a transferor transfers or agrees to transfer the property in goods by reference to a sample where there is an express or implied term to that effect in the contract concerned.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "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": "Words in s. 5(2)(c) substituted (3.1.1995) by 1994 c. 35, ss. 7, 8(2), Sch. 2 para. 6(4)(a) (with s. 8(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 5(3) repealed (3.1.1995) by 1994 c. 35, ss. 7, 8(2), Sch. 2 para. 6(4)(b), Sch.3 (with s. 8(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/29/section/5",
    "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."
}