Fair Trading Act 1973

Sections 14 and 109.

SCHEDULE 4 U.K. Services Excluded from Sections 14 and 109

1 U.K. Legal services (that is to say, the services of barristers, advocates or solicitors in their capacity as such).

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 4 para. 1 modified (1.1.1992) by S.I. 1991/2684, art. 4, Sch. 1

2 U.K. Medical services (that is to say, the provision of medical or surgical advice or attendance and the performance of surgical operations).

3 U.K. Dental services (that is to say, any services falling within the practice of dentistry within the meaning of the Dentists Act [F1 1984]).

Textual Amendments

F1 Figures substituted by Dentists Act 1984 (c. 24, SIF 83:1), s. 54(1), Sch. 5 para. 6

4 U.K. Ophthalmic services (that is to say, the testing of sight).

5 U.K. Veterinary services (that is to say, any services which constitute veterinary surgery within the meaning of the M1 Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966).

Marginal Citations

M1 1966 c. 36.

6 Nursing services (that is to say, any services which constitute nursing within the meaning of the M2 Nurses Act 1957, the M3 Nurses (Scotland) Act 1951 or the M4 Nurses and Midwives Act (Northern Ireland) 1970).

Marginal Citations

M2 1957 c. 15.

M3 1951 c. 55.

M4 1970 c. 11 (N.I.)

7 The services of midwives, physiotherapists or chiropodists in their capacity as such.

8 U.K. The services of architects in their capacity as such.

9 U.K. Accounting and auditing services (that is to say, the making or preparation of accounts or accounting records and the examination, verification and auditing of financial statements).

[F2 10 U.K. The services of registered patent agents (within the meaning of Part V of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988) in their capacity as such.]

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 4 para. 10 substituted by Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A), s. 303(1), Sch. 7 para. 15

[F3 10A U.K. The services of persons carrying on for gain in the United Kingdom the business of acting as agents or other representatives of other persons for the purpose of applying for or obtaining European patents or for the purpose of conducting proceedings [F4 in relation to applications for or otherwise]in connection with such patents before the European Patent Office or the comptroller and whose names appear on the European list (within the meaning of [F5 Part V of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988]) in their capacity as such persons.]

Textual Amendments

F3 Para. 10A inserted by Patents Act 1977 (c. 37), Sch. 5 para. 7(2)

F4 Words inserted by Administration of Justice Act 1985 (c. 61, SIF 76:1), s. 60(2)(a)(6)

F5 Words substituted by Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A), s. 303(1), Sch. 7 para. 15

11 U.K. The services of parliamentary agents entered in the register in either House of Parliament as agents entitled to practise both in promoting and in opposing Bills, in their capacity as such parliamentary agents.

12 U.K. The services of surveyors (that is to say, of surveyors of land, of quantity surveyors, of surveyors of buildings or other structures and of surveyors of ships) in their capacity as such surveyors.

13 U.K. The services of professional engineers or technologists (that is to say, of persons practising or employed as consultants in the field of—

(a) civil engineering;

(b) mechanical, aeronautical, marine, electrical or electronic engineering;

(c) mining, quarrying, soil analysis or other forms of minerology or geology;

(d) agronomy, forestry, livestock rearing or ecology;

(e) metallurgy, chemistry, biochemistry or physics; or

(f) any other form of engineering or technology analgous to those mentioned in the preceding sub-paragraphs),

in their capacity as such engineers or technologists.

14 Services consisting of the provision—

(a) of primary, secondary or further education within the meaning of the M5 Education Act 1944, the Education (Scotland) Acts 1939 to 1971 or the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1972, or

(b) of university or other higher education not falling within the preceding sub-paragraph.

Marginal Citations

M5 1944 c. 31.

15 U.K. The services of ministers of religion in their capacity as such ministers.