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CONSUMER

RIGHTS
ACT 2015
B Y K I E R A , I S O B E L A N D L I L LY
• The new laws mean you should be able to
learn much more easily and be aware of
what your rights entitle you to and what
they don’t
• It also outlines the rules regarding the
supply of goods, services and promotion
content, when it is business-to-consumer. Its

What is the main aim is to protect consumers against


poor-quality products and unfair business
consumer rights act practices or false advertisement with regards
to transactions, repairs, refunds and
2015? delivery.
• Consumer law provides protection to the
consumer against issues like fraud or mis-
selling when they purchase a product or
service. Consumer markets have to abide by
the rules and regulations of this directive.
• What should happen when goods are
faulty
• What should happen when digital
What does this content is faulty

law cover? • How services should match up to


what has been agreed, and what
should happen when they do not
• Unfair terms in a contract
• What happens when a business is
acting in a way which isn’t
competitive
• Trading Standards
What else?
The new laws mean you
You are always entitled to a should be able to learn
refund, repair or much more easily what
repurchase your rights entitle you to
and what they don’t.
Real life example: Vodafone fined £4.6m for
serious breaches of consumer protection rules

It is the second-largest fine ever


handed out by the regulator, after a
Company took money from pay-as- £5.7m penalty imposed on ITV in
you-go customers but failed to 2008 over the “abuse” of premium-
provide service and its complaints rate phone lines in a number of hit
handling process was flawed shows.
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