The Price Indications (Method of Payment) Regulations 1991

Interpretation and application

2.—(1) In these Regulations:—

“the Act” means the Consumer Protection Act 1987;

“goods” do not include fuel of any kind supplied for the propulsion of a vehicle intended or adapted for use on roads; and

“the indicated price” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 3(1).

(2) Subject to paragraph (3) below, in these Regulations, in relation to any goods, services, accommodation or facilities, “price” has the meaning assigned to it in head (a) of the definition of “price” in section 20(6) of the Act (that is to say, the aggregate of the sums required to be paid by a consumer for or otherwise in respect of the supply of the goods or the provision of the services, accommodation or facilities).

(3) In the case of an indication of a price within the meaning of head (b) of the definition of “price” in section 20(6) of the Act (that is to say, any method which will be, or has been, applied for the purpose of determining the aggregate mentioned in paragraph (2) above) these regulations shall have effect as if references to a price were to the monetary amount or to all the monetary amounts included in such a method.

(4) For the purposes of these Regulations—

(a) an indication of the price at which goods will be or are available by way of hire-purchase agreement, conditional sale agreement or credit-sale agreement shall not be treated as an indication of a price;

(b) the entry into, or making of payments under, such an agreement shall not be treated as a method of payment; and

(c) payment in a currency other than that in which a price indication is given shall not be treated as a different method of payment from payment in the currency in which the indication is given.

(5) In these Regulations, references to a method of payment do not include a method of payment which is available only to persons having a preexisting contractual or other connection with the person indicating the price in question or with some person connected with him, being a connection which relates principally to matters other than payment in respect of transactions between that person and the consumer.

(6) These Regulations do not have effect in relation to an indication of a price which is given to a consumer in response to a specific request from him that he be informed of the price payable by a specified method for or otherwise in respect of the supply of specified goods or the provision of specified services, accommodation or facilities.

(7) These Regulations do not apply to anything done otherwise than in the course of business.