Section 42: Persons incapable of purchase

42. Persons incapable of purchase (1) No purchase of immovable property at a sale by the Master shall, either personally or through a third party, be made by— (a) the Master, or any officer or clerk of his office, unless specially authorised to do so by the Attorney-General; (b) the execution debtor; (c) the guardian or curator of the execution debtor; (d) the attorney who has the carriage of the sale; or (e) a person known to be insolvent. (2) A bidding, outbidding or purchase made by or on behalf of a person specified in subsection (1) shall— (a) be null and void; and S3 – 13 [Issue 10] Sale of Immovable Property Act (b) render the party making the bidding and any third party on whose behalf the bidding has been made, liable to an action in damages, at the suit of an interested party.