Cap. 6:07
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INSOLVENCY
No. 7/2018
Effect of liquidation of estate of seller under reservation of ownership
contract
The liquidation of the estate of a seller under a reservation of O\\ncrship contract
docs not gi' c a right to the liquidator of the estate to reclaim property sold under the
contract.
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Goods purchased not on credit but not paid for
(I) If a debtor, before the date of liquidation of his or her estate, received delivery
of movable property bought by him or her and the purchase price of such property
had not been paid in full at the time of the delivery despite a term of the contract that
the purchase price is to be paid on deli very of the property, the seller may, after the
liquidation of the purchaser's estate, reclaim the property if within 14 days after the
delivery thereof he or she has given standard notice to the purchaser or the liquidator
or the Master that he or she reclaims the property.
(2) If the liquidator disputes the seller's right to reclaim the property he or
she must, within 14 days after having received notice of the claim, notify the seller by
standard notice that he or she disputes the claim, \Vhereupon the seller may within 14
days after the receipt of the said notice, institute legal proceedings to enforce his or
her right.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (I) a contract of purchase and sale is deemed
to provide for the payment of the purchase price upon delivery of the property in question
to the purchaser, unless the seller has agreed that the purchase price or any part thereof
is not payable before or at the time of such delivery.
(4) The liquidator of the purchaser's insolvent estate is not obliged to restore
any property reclaimed by the seller in terms of subsection (l), unless the seller refunds
to him or her every part of the purchase price already received by him or her.
(5) Except as provided in this section, a seller is not entitled to recover any
property which he or she sold and delivered to a purchaser whose estate \vas liquidated
after the sale, only by reason of the fact that the purchaser failed to pay the purchase
price.
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Effect of liquidation upon lease
(I) This section does not apply to a financial lease.
(2) A lease of movable or immovable property is not terminated by the
liquidation of the estate of the lessee, but the liquidator of the insoh,ent estate may,
without prior notice, terminate the lease by standard notice to the lessor with the approval
of the Master or in terms of a resolution of creditors taken at a meeting of creditors of
the insolvent estate.
(3) The lessor may claim from the insolvent estate compensation for any loss
which he or she may have sustained by reason of the non-performance of the terms of
the lease.
(4) If the liquidator does not within three months of his or her appointment
notify the lessor by standard notice that he or she continues the lease on behalf of the
insolvent estate, he or she is regarded as having terminated the lease at the end of the
said three months.
(5) The rent due in terms of the lease from the date of liquidation of the estate of
the lessee to the termination or cession of the lease by the liquidator, must be included
in the cost of the liquidation.
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