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(1)In this section—
F2(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F3(b)“ADR entity” means a person whose name appears on a list maintained in accordance with regulation 10 of the Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes (Competent Authorities and Information) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/542);]
F4(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F5(d)“ADR procedure” means a procedure for the out-of-court resolution of disputes through the intervention of an ADR entity which proposes or imposes a solution or brings the parties together with the aim of facilitating an amicable solution;]
[F6(da)“consumer” means an individual acting for purposes which are wholly or mainly outside that individual’s trade, business, craft or profession;]
(e) “non-binding ADR procedure” means an ADR procedure the outcome of which is not binding on the parties;
[F7(f)“relevant dispute” means a dispute that—
(i)concerns obligations under a sales contract or a service contract, and
(ii)is between a trader established in the United Kingdom or the European Union and a consumer resident in the United Kingdom,
which the parties attempt to settle by recourse to a non-binding ADR procedure;]
[F8(g)“sales contract” means a contract under which a trader transfers, or agrees to transfer, the ownership of goods to a consumer and the consumer pays, or agrees to pay, the price, including any contract that has both goods and services as its object;
(h)“service contract” means a contract, other than a sales contract, under which a trader supplies, or agrees to supply, a service to a consumer and the consumer pays, or agrees to pay, the price;
(i)“trader” means a person acting for purposes relating to that person’s trade, business, craft or profession, whether acting personally or through another person acting in the trader’s name or on the trader’s behalf.]
(2)Subsection (3) applies where—
(a)a limitation period prescribed by any law applicable by virtue of section 1(1)(a) relates to the subject of the whole or part of a relevant dispute;
(b) a non-binding ADR procedure in relation to the relevant dispute starts before the period expires; and
(c) if not extended by this section, the period would expire before the non-binding ADR procedure ends or less than eight weeks after it ends.
(3) For the purposes of initiating judicial proceedings, the limitation period expires instead at the end of eight weeks after the non-binding ADR procedure ends (subject to subsection (4)).
(4)If a limitation period has been extended by this section, subsections (2) and (3) apply to the extended limitation period as they apply to a limitation period mentioned in subsection (2)(a).
(5) For the purposes of this section, a non-binding ADR procedure starts in relation to a relevant dispute on the date when the dispute is first sent or otherwise communicated to the ADR entity in accordance with the entity’s rules regarding the submission of complaints.
(6) For the purposes of this section, the non-binding ADR procedure ends on the date of the first of these to occur—
(a)the parties reach an agreement in resolution of the relevant dispute;
(b) a party completes the notification of the other parties that it has withdrawn from the non-binding ADR procedure;
(c)a party to whom a qualifying request is made fails to give a response reaching the other parties within 14 days of the request;
(d) the ADR entity notifies the party that submitted the relevant dispute to the ADR entity that in accordance with its policy, the ADR entity refuses to deal with the relevant dispute;
(e) after the parties are notified that the ADR entity can no longer act in relation to the relevant dispute (for whatever reason), the parties fail to agree within 14 days to submit the dispute to an alternative ADR entity;
(f) the non-binding ADR procedure otherwise comes to an end pursuant to the rules of the ADR entity.
(7) For the purpose of subsection (6), a qualifying request is a request by a party that another (A) confirm to all parties that A is continuing with the non-binding ADR procedure.
(8) In the case of any relevant dispute, references in this section to a non-binding ADR procedure are references to the non-binding ADR procedure so far as it relates to that dispute, and references to a party are to be read accordingly.
(9)This section is without prejudice to any enactment which has effect for the purposes of provisions—
(a)relating to limitation or prescription periods, and
(b)contained in an international agreement to which the United Kingdom is a party.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 1B inserted (9.7.2015) by The Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1392), regs. 1(2), 5(3) (with reg. 1(3))
F2S. 1B(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes (Extension of Time Limits for Legal Proceedings) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1139), regs. 1(2), 4(2)(a) (with reg. 7)
F3S. 1B(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes (Extension of Time Limits for Legal Proceedings) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1139), regs. 1(2), 4(2)(b) (with reg. 7)
F4S. 1B(1)(c) omitted (9.1.2016) by virtue of The Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1972), regs. 1, 4(2)
F5S. 1B(1)(d) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes (Extension of Time Limits for Legal Proceedings) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1139), regs. 1(2), 4(2)(c) (with reg. 7)
F6S. 1B(1)(da) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes (Extension of Time Limits for Legal Proceedings) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1139), regs. 1(2), 4(2)(d) (with reg. 7)
F7S. 1B(1)(f) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes (Extension of Time Limits for Legal Proceedings) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1139), regs. 1(2), 4(2)(e) (with reg. 7)
F8S. 1B(1)(g)-(i) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes (Extension of Time Limits for Legal Proceedings) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1139), regs. 1(2), 4(2)(f) (with reg. 7)
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