Section 183(1)

In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires— “action” includes omission; and references to the taking of action include references to refraining from action; “business” includes a professional practice and includes any other undertaking which is carried on for gain or reward or which is an undertaking in the course of which goods or services are supplied otherwise than free of charge; “change of circumstances” includes any discovery that information has been supplied which is false or misleading in a material respect; “consumer” means any person who is— and who does not receive or seek to receive the goods or services in the course of a business carried on by him; a person to whom goods are or are sought to be supplied (whether by way of sale or otherwise) in the course of a business carried on by the person supplying or seeking to supply them; or a person for whom services are or are sought to be supplied in the course of a business carried on by the person supplying or seeking to supply them; “customer” includes a customer who is not a consumer; “enactment” includes an Act of the Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland legislation and an enactment comprised in subordinate legislation, and includes an enactment whenever passed or made; “enterprise” means the activities, or part of the activities, of a business; “goods” includes buildings and other structures, and also includes ships, aircraft and hovercraft; “Minister of the Crown” means the holder of an office in Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom and includes the Treasury; “modify” includes amend or repeal; “notice” means notice in writing; “subordinate legislation” has the same meaning as in the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30) and also includes an instrument made under an Act of the Scottish Parliament and an instrument made under Northern Ireland legislation; and “supply”, in relation to the supply of goods, includes supply by way of sale, lease, hire or hire-purchase, and, in relation to buildings or other structures, includes the construction of them by a person for another person.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-09-04