Guidance

Consumer law: more powers for enforcers

Explains how public enforcers can use increased powers from the Consumer Rights Act to stop breaches of consumer law.

From:
Department for Business and Trade and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Published
1 June 2015

Documents

Ref: BIS/15/292

PDF, 582 KB, 30 pages

Details

Aimed at local authority Trading Standards Services and other public enforcers on how to use 鈥榚nhanced consumer measures鈥�. We introduced these increased range of enforcement actions through the . These measures will help enforcers achieve better redress for consumers who have experienced a breach of consumer law.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provide further guidance on the provisions for the enforcement of consumer protection legislation, under .

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Published 1 June 2015

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