What are the offences under the Sale of Goods Act ?
The Act makes it an offence to: • apply a false or misleading description to goods (e.g. by writing it down, making a verbal statement or by turning back a car’s odometer) • supply or offer to supply goods to which a false or misleading trade description is applied. A person exposing goods for supply (e.g. in a shop) or having them in his possession for supply (e.g. in a storeroom) is deemed to offer to supply them for the purposes of the Act. These offences are strict liability offences, i.e. it is possible for a trader to commit an offence without intending to do so.
