The Consumer Rights Bill is a major reform of UK consumer law. If you a business selling to consumers, a consumer or an enforcer of consumer law it will impact on you. This exercise is testing guidance on parts of the Bill, but you can also learn about all of the Bill online.
The majority of the Bill is likely to enter into force in October 2015. The government is committed to having guidance in place well in advance of that date, to ensure businesses, consumers and enforcers are clear as to what the law means, that they know what is changing and what they need to do.
That guidance is being produced now and three guidance documents are now ready for testing with key audiences. This consultation asks for your views on them, and you can give views on one, two or all of them. The three documents we are testing now are:
You can see the policy documents and the Bill which these guidance documents are based on here.
Please note, the Bill itself has not yet completed all its Parliamentary stages, therefore these documents are based on the Bill as it stands now (October 2014). Should the Bill change, these documents are also likely to change.
You can follow the passage of the Bill through Parliament on http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2014-15/consumerrights.html and by following @lauraharbidge on Twitter.
We want businesses, consumers and enforcers to be clear what the Bill means for them. We therefore want to test the draft guidance documents to ensure they are as useful as possible.
We are consulting now to ensure we have enough time to incorporate your comments before publishing guidance well in advance of the Bill entering into force.
These documents will be finalized in January 2015.
Guidance covering the other parts of the Bill will follow shortly.
You can follow the passage of the Bill through Parliament on http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2014-15/consumerrights.html and by following @lauraharbidge
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