PART 1Consumer contracts for goods, digital content and services
CHAPTER 2Goods
What goods contracts are covered?
3Contracts covered by this Chapter
1
This Chapter applies to a contract for a trader to supply goods to a consumer.
2
It applies only if the contract is one of these (defined for the purposes of this Part in sections 5 to 8)—
a
a sales contract;
b
a contract for the hire of goods;
c
a hire-purchase agreement;
d
a contract for transfer of goods.
3
It does not apply—
a
to a contract for a trader to supply coins or notes to a consumer for use as currency;
b
to a contract for goods to be sold by way of execution or otherwise by authority of law;
c
to a contract intended to operate as a mortgage, pledge, charge or other security;
d
in relation to England and Wales or Northern Ireland, to a contract made by deed and for which the only consideration is the presumed consideration imported by the deed;
e
in relation to Scotland, to a gratuitous contract.
4
A contract to which this Chapter applies is referred to in this Part as a “contract to supply goods”.
5
Contracts to supply goods include—
a
contracts entered into between one part owner and another;
b
contracts for the transfer of an undivided share in goods;
c
contracts that are absolute and contracts that are conditional.
6
Subsection (1) is subject to any provision of this Chapter that applies a section or part of a section to only some of the kinds of contracts listed in subsection (2).
7
A mixed contract (see section 1(4)) may be a contract of any of those kinds.