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Section 52: Service to be performed within a reasonable time

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

Part 1: Consumer contracts for goods, digital content and services — CHAPTER 4: Services

This section applies to a contract to supply a service, if—

the contract does not expressly fix the time for the service to be performed, and does not say how it is to be fixed, and
information that is to be treated under section 50 as included in the contract does not fix the time either.

In that case the contract is to be treated as including a term that the trader must perform the service within a reasonable time.

What is a reasonable time is a question of fact.

See section 54 for a consumer's rights if the trader is in breach of a term that this section requires to be treated as included in a contract.

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