Weekly Quiz
Test your consumer skills by answering the questions below. Test
your skills every week with a different set of questions.
- As the law is at the moment, if you invite a trader to visit you at home to demonstrate an adjustable bed and you agree to buy one, paying by cheque, what amount of time do you have to change your mind (if any)?
- How will the Cancellation of Contracts made in a Consumer's Home or Place of Work etc Regulations 2008 affect that?
- On what date do the Regulations come into force?
- As the Regulations protect consumers signing at their place of work do they give cancellation rights to a self employed florist who signs an advertising contract in the shop?
- The trader has to provide the consumer with a form that can be used to cancel the order. Is that the only way that the consumer can cancel?
- If the consumer posts the cancellation notice, at what stage is the cancellation deemed to have taken place (e.g. posting, receipt or reading of the notice)?
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Lancashire County Council Trading Standards,
58-60 Guildhall Street, Preston, Lancashire PR1 3NU.
Telephone: 0845 600 1352 or (01772) 533573 Fax:
(01772) 533591 Electronic Mail:
feedback@lancashire.gov.uk
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