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The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000
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- reg. 6(4)(5) inserted by S.I. 2004/2095 reg. 25(4)
- reg. 26(1)(c) and word inserted by S.I. 2013/783 art. 11(3)(b)
- reg. 26(1)(c) word substituted by S.I. 2014/549 Sch. 1 para. 28(3)(b)
- reg. 26A inserted by S.I. 2013/783 art. 11(4)
- reg. 26A word substituted by S.I. 2014/549 Sch. 1 para. 28(4)
- reg. 26A heading word substituted by S.I. 2014/549 Sch. 1 para. 28(4)
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10.—(1) Subject to regulation 13, if within the cancellation period set out in regulations 11 and 12, the consumer gives a notice of cancellation to the supplier, or any other person previously notified by the supplier to the consumer as a person to whom notice of cancellation may be given, the notice of cancellation shall operate to cancel the contract.
(2) Except as otherwise provided by these Regulations, the effect of a notice of cancellation is that the contract shall be treated as if it had not been made.
(3) For the purposes of these Regulations, a notice of cancellation is a notice in writing or in another durable medium available and accessible to the supplier (or to the other person to whom it is given) which, however expressed, indicates the intention of the consumer to cancel the contract.
(4) A notice of cancellation given under this regulation by a consumer to a supplier or other person is to be treated as having been properly given if the consumer—
(a)leaves it at the address last known to the consumer and addressed to the supplier or other person by name (in which case it is to be taken to have been given on the day on which it was left);
(b)sends it by post to the address last known to the consumer and addressed to the supplier or other person by name (in which case, it is to be taken to have been given on the day on which it was posted);
(c)sends it by facsimile to the business facsimile number last known to the consumer (in which case it is to be taken to have been given on the day on which it is sent); or
(d)sends it by electronic mail, to the business electronic mail address last known to the consumer (in which case it is to be taken to have been given on the day on which it is sent).
(5) Where a consumer gives a notice in accordance with paragraph (4)(a) or (b) to a supplier who is a body corporate or a partnership, the notice is to be treated as having been properly given if—
(a)in the case of a body corporate, it is left at the address of, or sent to, the secretary or clerk of that body; or
(b)in the case of a partnership, it is left with or sent to a partner or a person having control or management of the partnership business.
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I1Reg. 10 in force at 31.10.2000, see reg. 1(1)
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