Section 3: Contracts covered by this Chapter

Consumer Rights Act 2015 · 2015 c. 15View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 1: Consumer contracts for goods, digital content and services — CHAPTER 2: Goods

This Chapter applies to a contract for a trader to supply goods to a consumer.

It applies only if the contract is one of these (defined for the purposes of this Part in sections 5 to 8)—

a sales contract;
a contract for the hire of goods;
a hire-purchase agreement;
a contract for transfer of goods.

It does not apply—

to a contract for a trader to supply coins or notes to a consumer for use as currency;
to a contract for goods to be sold by way of execution or otherwise by authority of law;
to a contract intended to operate as a mortgage, pledge, charge or other security;
in relation to England and Wales or Northern Ireland, to a contract made by deed and for which the only consideration is the presumed consideration imported by the deed;
in relation to Scotland, to a gratuitous contract.

A contract to which this Chapter applies is referred to in this Part as a "contract to supply goods".

Contracts to supply goods include—

contracts entered into between one part owner and another;
contracts for the transfer of an undivided share in goods;
contracts that are absolute and contracts that are conditional.

Subsection (1) is subject to any provision of this Chapter that applies a section or part of a section to only some of the kinds of contracts listed in subsection (2).

A mixed contract (see section 1(4)) may be a contract of any of those kinds.

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