The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000

Inertia Selling U.K.

24.—(1) Paragraphs (2) and (3) apply if—

(a) unsolicited goods are sent to a person (“the recipient”) with a view to his acquiring them;

(b) the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a business; and

(c) the recipient has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them.

(2) The recipient may, as between himself and the sender, use, deal with or dispose of the goods as if they were an unconditional gift to him.

(3) The rights of the sender to the goods are extinguished.

F1 (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1 (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(6) In this regulation—

• “acquire” includes hire;

• “send” includes deliver;

• “sender”, in relation to any goods, includes—

  (a)

  any person on whose behalf or with whose consent the goods are sent;

  (b)

  any other person claiming through or under the sender or any person mentioned in paragraph (a); and

  (c)

  any person who delivers the goods; and

• “unsolicited” means, in relation to goods sent or services supplied to any person, that they are sent or supplied without any prior request made by or on behalf of the recipient.

F2 (7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F2 (8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F3 (9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(10) This regulation applies only to goods sent and services supplied after the date on which it comes into force.

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 24(4)(5) revoked (26.5.2008) by The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1277), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 96, Sch. 4 Pt. 2 (with reg. 28(2)(3))

F2 Reg. 24(7)(8)(9) revoked (26.5.2008) by The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1277), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 96, Sch. 4 Pt. 2 (with reg. 28(2)(3))

F3 Reg. 24(9) revoked (26.5.2008) by The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1277), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 96, Sch. 4 Pt. 2 (with reg. 28(2)(3))

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 24 in force at 31.10.2000, see reg. 1(1)