Permitted materials

The Awarding Body allows for the provision of permitted materials within the examinations. 

Where candidates are allowed to bring permitted materials into the exam room, you will be told 5 weeks prior to the examination in writing.  Where materials are permitted into the exam room, only original and unmarked/unannotated copies may be taken into the exam room. Downloaded copies from the internet are not permitted into the examination room under any circumstances.

Where the examination has been marked as closed book, the examiner will either ensure that all questions are written to provide the candidate with the information they need, or, an extract from the relevant piece of legislation will be included within the paper or on the desk.

Below is the list of the November 2011 cycle of examinations and permitted materials:

The following subjects are closed book exams:

Legal Systems  
Consumer Protection Environment 
Advice, Resolution and Redress 
Agriculture 
Animal Health and Welfare 
Consumer Credit 
Fair Trading Civil 
Fair Trading Criminal 
Food Standards 
Legal Metrology: Weights and Measures Law 
Product Safety 
 Management of Quality 
 Management of Regulatory Services 

 

The following subjects allow for materials permitted into the exam room:

Law of Contract - 
candidates are permitted to take into the examination room their own unannotated copies of:
• Consumer Law Statutes (Monitor Press);
• Consumer Law Statutes (Sweet & Maxwell);
• Butterworths Commercial Law Handbook;
• Butterworths Commercial and Consumer Law Handbook;
• Blackstone?s Statutes on Commercial and Consumer Law;
• Core Statutes on Commercial & Consumer Law (Avizandum);
• Statutes on Scots Commercial & Consumer Law (Avizandum);
  or
  OPSI original copies of: Sale of Goods Act 1979; Sale and Supply of Goods Act 1994; Supply of Goods & Services Act 1982.

Intellectual Property -
candidates will be provided with unofficial consolidated texts of the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988, along with an unofficial consolidated text of the Trade Marks Act 1994. 

Legal Metrology: Weights and Measures Technology -
candidates may take into the examination room a self-contained, non-rogrammable Calculator.

Please note that the following items are not allowed in the examination room:

Programmable calculators; Personal Digital Assistants  (PDAs); IPOD/MP3 players; Blackberry devices; Mobile phones.