The Act is organized in 14 Parts and 6 schedules. Part 1 contains preliminary and general provisions that include forms making of contract; offences and repeals and revocations. Part 2 concerns sales contracts, this includes consumer rights and remedies in sales contracts, such as right to terminate sales contract where trader has no right to sell; goods to be in conformity with sales contract; subjective and objective requirements for conformity with sales contract; liability of trader under sales contract; repair or replacement of goods; price reduction. Chapter 5 of Part 2 contains Commercial guarantees. Part 3 concerns digital content contracts and digital service contracts, and covers the aspects of subjective and objective requirements for conformity with digital content contract or digital service contract; liability of trader under digital content contract or digital service contract, remedy for failure to supply digital content or digital service, etc. Part 4 Service contracts contains consumer rights and remedies in service contracts; discipline of supply of service; provisions that require service to be in conformity with service contract; subjective and objective requirements for conformity with service contract; reasonable price to be paid for service; consumer remedies in service contracts for failure to supply service; right to have service brought into conformity with service contract and right to proportionate reduction in price or termination of service contract; obligations of consumer in event of termination of service contract, etc. Part 5 provides for consumer information for off-premises and on-premises contract, for distance contract and cancellation and other rights. Part 6 provides for unfair terms in consumer contracts, under this Part a term of a consumer contract is unfair if, contrary to the requirement of good faith, it causes a significant imbalance in the parties’ rights and obligations under the contract to the detriment of the consumer. Part 7 is Proceedings and penalties. Part 8 to 14 contains amendments to Consumer Credit Act 1995; Consumer Protection Act 2007; Communications Regulation Act 2002; Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014; Companies Act 2014; etc.
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