Sale of Goods Act 1972

(1) Subject to this Act and any other law in force in the Territory, notwithstanding that the property in the goods may have passed to the buyer, the unpaid seller of goods as such has by implication of law:

(a) a lien on the goods for the price while he is in possession of them;

(b) in case of the insolvency of the buyer a right of stopping the goods in transitu after he has parted with the possession of them; and

(2) Where the property in goods has not passed to the buyer the unpaid seller has in addition to his other remedies a right of withholding delivery similar to and co-extensive with his rights of lien and stoppage in transitu where the property has passed to the buyer.

Division 2 Unpaid seller's lien