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Effect of service of sale order.
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41.—(1) Where a sale order has been duly served on the vendor and purchaser, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—
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(a) the vendor and the purchaser shall be deemed to have entered into a contract in terms of the requirements of such order;
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(b) if the requirements of such order are not complied with—
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(i) the vendor shall, unless he proves to the satisfaction of the court that such non-compliance was due to the acts or default of the purchaser, be guilty of an offence under this section, and
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(ii) the purchaser shall, unless he proves to the satisfaction of the court that such non-compliance was due to the acts or default of the vendor, be guilty of an offence under this section.
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(2) Every person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds.
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(3) An offence under this section may be prosecuted by or at the suit of the Minister for Industry and Commerce as prosecutor.
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