CIPS L4M3 Dumps Questions Answers

Article 2 of CISG states that:

This Convention does not apply to sales:

(a) of goods bought for personal, family or household use, unless the seller, at any time before or at the conclusion of the contract, neither knew nor ought to have known that the goods were bought for any such use;

(b) by auction;

(c) on execution or otherwise by authority of law;

(d) of stocks, shares, investment securities, negotiable instruments or money;

(e) of ships, vessels, hovercraft or aircraft;

(f) of electricity.

LO 1, AC 1.2

When parties do not negotiate face-to-face, a key QUESTION NO: becomes when things like acceptances, rejections and revocations take effect. The general rule is that acceptances are effective on dispatch (when they are mailed). Everything else becomes effective when the offeror actually receives them. This idea is codified by the “mailbox rule” which states that acceptance is effective on dispatch, even before the offeror has received it. (The one minor exception to this rule involves option contracts for which acceptances are not effective until they are received by the offeror.)

Social and environmental criteria are increasingly encouraged in public sector contracting. In the UK, The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 encourages public organising to apply social and environmental criteria in contract.