(2A) For the purposes of this section and section 5 below, goods are of satisfactory
quality if they meet the standard that a reasonable person would regard as
satisfactory, taking account of any description of the goods, the price (if
relevant) and all the other relevant circumstances.
(2B) If the transferee deals as consumer, the relevant circumstances mentioned in
subsection (2A) above include any public statements on the specific
characteristics of the goods made about them by the transferor, the producer or
his representative, particularly in advertising or on labelling.
(2C) A public statement is not by virtue of subsection (2B) above a relevant
circumstance for the purposes of subsection (2A) above in the case of a contract
for the transfer of goods, if the transferor shows that—
(a) at the time the contract was made, he was not, and could not reasonably
have been, aware of the statement;
(b) before the contract was made, the statement had been withdrawn in
public or, to the extent that it contained anything which was incorrect or
misleading, it had been corrected in public; or
(c) the decision to acquire the goods could not have been influenced by the
statement.
(2D) Subsections (2B) and (2C) above do not prevent any public statement from
being a relevant circumstance for the purposes of subsection (2A) above
(whether or not the transferee deals as consumer) if the statement would have
been such a circumstance apart from those subsections.
(3) The condition implied by subsection (2) above does not extend to any matter
making the quality of goods unsatisfactory—
(a) which is specifically drawn to the transferee’s attention before the
contract is made;
(b) where the transferee examines the goods before the contract is made,
which that examination ought to reveal; or
(c) where the property in the goods is transferred by reference to a sample,
which would have been apparent on a reasonable examination of the
sample.
(4) Subsection (5) below applies where, under a contract for the transfer of goods,
the transferor transfers the property in goods in the course of a business and the
transferee, expressly or by implication, makes known—
(a) to the transferor; or
(b) where the consideration or part of the consideration for the transfer is a
sum payable by instalments and the goods were previously sold by a
credit-broker to the transferor, to that credit-broker,