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Unfair Contract Terms (No. 26 of 1997) - Sect 13

Interpretation

13.
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires"
(2) A party to a contract "deals as consumer" in relation to another party if"
(a) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so; and
(b) the other party makes the contract in the course of a business ; and
(c) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase, the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption,
(3) On a sale by auction or by competitive tender, the buyer shall not in any circumstances be regarded as dealing as consumer,
(4) It is for the person claiming that a party does not deal as consumer to show that he does not.


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