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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 23 February 2011 - onwards
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Regulation 5 Advertising

(1) A trader who advertises a regulated contract shall include a notification in the advertisement that the information referred to in Regulation 6(1) in relation to the contract is available and how a person may obtain the information.

(2) A trader who offers a regulated contract directly to a consumer at a promotion or sales event shall clearly indicate, in any invitation to that event that he or she issues or notifies to the consumer, that the event is of a commercial nature and purpose.

(3) A trader who offers a regulated contract directly to a consumer at a promotion or sales event shall at all times during the event make available to the consumer, in respect of each contract so offered, all of the information referred to in Regulation 6(1) in relation to that contract -

(a) by displaying the information in a prominent position at the event, and

(b) by having literature on paper or on another durable medium easily accessible to the consumer, containing the information, displayed in a prominent position at the event and which may be taken away from the event by the consumer.

(4) A trader shall not market or sell a timeshare contract or a long-term holiday product contract as an investment.