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Link to DTI's Home Safety Network web site.

link to the Office of Fair Trading

link to Trading Standards Central

link to National Assn. of Citizens Advice Bureau

link to European Commission

link to Need2know web site for young people

Fact Sheets on Consumer & Competition issues

 

Our Fact Sheets are listed and linked to below. The Fact Sheets will also be found throughout the CCP site indicated by our green button.

 

A
Advertisements - Misleading or Offensive

B
Bureaux de Change Regulations - Price Indications

C
Car Sales - Competition - Block Exemption
Car Sales and Car Servicing
Children’s Clothing Safety
Christmas Day Trading
Citizens Advice Bureaux (funding)
Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993
Consumer Credit Act
Creosote and creosote-treated wood

D
Debt Advice Project Funding
Debt - Over-indebtedness
Distance Selling (Mail Order, Telephone and Internet Shopping)
Doorstep Selling

E
Enterprise Act 2002
Enterprise Act - Section 8 - Stop Now Orders
Estate Agents - Regulation of
Extended Warranties

F
Fireworks Legislation covering safety and anti-social use
Furniture Flammability Regulations

I
Internet Auctions

M
Mergers (UK)
MG/Rover Warranties

O
Origin Marking (Made in... Labels)
Over-indebtedness

P
Package Travel
Product Safety - Ceramic Ware - lead and cadmium release
Product Safety - Cooking Utensils - lead content of tin or other metallic coating
Product Safety - General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR) 1994
Product Safety - Product Liability, Defective Products, Unsafe Products
Price Indications, Misleading pricing


S
Sale of Goods Act 1979
Scam Promotions/Prize Draws
Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 (Supply of Services)
Sunday Trading laws
Super-complaints

T
Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (TTBER)
Timeshare, Timeshare Sales, Holiday Clubs
Toy Safety
Trading Schemes, Pyramid Selling (Multi-level marketing, Chain Letters, Gifting Schemes)
Trading Standards - Role of in the UK

U
Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 (limits on the use of exclusion clauses)
Unfair Terms in Consumer Contract Regulation 1999 (fairness of contract terms)
Unsolicited Communications

W
Weights and Measurers

 

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