PART 1Consumer contracts for goods, digital content and services

CHAPTER 2Goods

What goods contracts are covered?

I13Contracts 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.