Book Purchasers' Protection Act 1899 (NSW)

Act No. 25, 1899.

An Act to consolidate the enactments relating'

to the protection of the purchasers of certain

books. {23rd November, 1899.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative

Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1. This Act may be cited as the " Book Purchasers' Protection

Act, 1899."

2. The Book Purchasers' Protection Act of 1890 is hereby

repealed.
3. In this Act the word " b o o k " means any book, engravings, lithographs, pictures, or any other like matter whether illustrated or not.
4. This Act shall apply to every contract for the sale of any

book or books where such book or books, or any one or more volumes

or numbers thereof, are not to be delivered to the purchaser in a

completed form at the date of such contract.

5 . Every such contract shall be absolutely void unless—

(a) the purchaser has signed an agreement on a form on which

there has been printed in red capital letters of size not less than great primer, the words, " the total liability of the

purchaser under this agreement is," followed by the amount

of such liability printed in red in words and figures of the like

size, and having the letters of such words printed in capitals; and
(b)	unless such form has been printed or written in black letters across and subsequent to the printing of such red letters and figures.

of such value shall be on the vendor. Act

6. The vendor of any books under any such contract, or his agent, shall, at the time of the signing of such contract, hand over to the purchaser a duplicate of the agreement having printed on it the words
" duplicate to be kept by the purchaser," and the vendor shall not be
entitled to recover under such contract unless he produces an acknow­
ledgment by the purchaser of the receipt of such duplicate.

7. In any action in any court on any such contract the court may determine the value of the books purchased, and the onus of proof