Disposal of Uncollected Goods Act 1967
sec.5Rights of bailees to sell goods accepted for treatment but not re-delivered
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sec.5 Rights of bailees to sell goods accepted for treatment but not re-delivered
Where goods, accepted pursuant to a bailment in relation to which this Act applies, are ready for re-delivery but the bailor— fails to pay or tender to the bailee the bailor’s charges in relation to the goods; or having paid those charges, fails to take delivery of the goods or, if the terms of the bailment so provide, to give directions as to their delivery; then, subject to any agreement between the bailee and the bailor and to this Act, and if the bailee did not, before carrying out the inspection, custody, storage, repair or other treatment of the goods, have notice that the goods were comprised in a hire-purchase agreement containing a provision prohibiting the creation by the hirer of a lien on the goods, the bailee is, while the failure continues, entitled to sell the goods. s 5 amd 1995 No. 58 s 4 sch 1
- (a) fails to pay or tender to the bailee the bailor’s charges in relation to the goods; or
- (b) having paid those charges, fails to take delivery of the goods or, if the terms of the bailment so provide, to give directions as to their delivery;