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The Department of Prices and Consumer Protection was established in 1974. This was the first time a government department's title made reference to consumer protection. In 2011 Consumer Minister Edward Davey announced plans within a policy document called Better Choices, Better Deals: Consumers Powering Growth to ensure that businesses would provide key information to their customers on how ...
The Consumer Rights Act 2015 [1] (c. 15) is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which consolidates existing consumer protection law legislation and also gives consumers a number of new rights and remedies.
The main consumer protection laws in the UK are the Consumer Protection Act 1987 and the Consumer Rights Act 2015. The United Kingdom has left the European Union, but during the transition period (until end of 2020) the UK was still bound by directives of the European Union.
Text of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk. The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 ( SI 2008 /1277) is a statutory instrument in the United Kingdom made under the European Communities Act 1972 .
Long title: An Act to establish for the protection of consumers a new system, administered by the Director General of Fair Trading, of licensing and other control of traders concerned with the provision of credit, or the supply of goods on hire or hire-purchase, and their transactions, in place of the present enactments regulating moneylenders, pawnbrokers and hire-purchase traders and their ...
The Consumer Protection Act 1987 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which made important changes to the consumer law of the United Kingdom. Part 1 implemented European Community (EC) Directive 85/374/EEC, the product liability directive, by introducing a regime of strict liability for damage arising from defective products.
The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000, SI 2000/2334, implemented [Note 1] European Directive 97/7/EC as UK law. [Note 2] They applied to contracts "concluded between a supplier and a consumer under an organised distance sales or services provision scheme run by the supplier who, for the purposes of the contract, makes use of one or more means of distance communication" up ...
An Act to provide for the regulation of competition in digital markets; to amend the Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002 and to make other provision about competition law; to make provision relating to the protection of consumer rights and to confer further such rights; and for connected purposes. Citation: 2024 c. 13: Introduced by