Section 2

This Act applies to a contract for the supply of goods or services where the purchaser and the supplier are each acting in the course of a business, other than an excepted contract. In this Act “contract for the supply of goods or services” means— a contract of sale of goods; or a contract (other than a contract of sale of goods) by which a person does any, or any combination, of the things mentioned in subsection (3) for a consideration that is (or includes) a money consideration. Those things are— transferring or agreeing to transfer to another the property in goods; bailing or agreeing to bail goods to another by way of hire or, in Scotland, hiring or agreeing to hire goods to another; and agreeing to carry out a service. For the avoidance of doubt a contract of service or apprenticeship is not a contract for the supply of goods or services. The following are excepted contracts— a consumer credit agreement; a contract intended to operate by way of mortgage, pledge, charge or other security; and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In this section— “business” includes a profession and the activities of any government department or local or public authority; “consumer credit agreement” has the same meaning as in the Consumer Credit Act 1974; “contract of sale of goods” and “goods” have the same meaning as in the Sale of Goods Act 1979; “government department” includes any part of the Scottish Administration; “property in goods” means the general property in them and not merely a special property.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-08-15