Section 3

This Chapter applies to a contract for a trader to supply goods to a consumer. It applies only if the contract is one of these (defined for the purposes of this Part in sections 5 to 8)— a sales contract; a contract for the hire of goods; a hire-purchase agreement; a contract for transfer of goods. It does not apply— to a contract for a trader to supply coins or notes to a consumer for use as currency; to a contract for goods to be sold by way of execution or otherwise by authority of law; to a contract intended to operate as a mortgage, pledge, charge or other security; in relation to England and Wales or Northern Ireland, to a contract made by deed and for which the only consideration is the presumed consideration imported by the deed; in relation to Scotland, to a gratuitous contract. A contract to which this Chapter applies is referred to in this Part as a “contract to supply goods”. Contracts to supply goods include— contracts entered into between one part owner and another; contracts for the transfer of an undivided share in goods; contracts that are absolute and contracts that are conditional. Subsection (1) is subject to any provision of this Chapter that applies a section or part of a section to only some of the kinds of contracts listed in subsection (2). A mixed contract (see section 1(4)) may be a contract of any of those kinds.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-07-30