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Version date: 24 May 2024 - onwards

217 Supply of goods or digital content

(1) This section provides for how references to the supply of goods or digital content are to be read for the purposes of this Part.

(2) References to a person who supplies goods or digital content are to be read as including references to a person who seeks to supply goods or digital content (and references to a person who receives goods or digital content are to be read in a corresponding way).

(3) The supply of goods includes, in relation to buildings and other structures, construction of them by one person for another.

(4) References to a person supplying goods under -

(a) a hire-purchase agreement,

(b) a credit-sale agreement, or

(c) a conditional sale agreement,

are to be read as including references to a person who conducts any antecedent negotiations relating to the agreement.

(5) The following terms have the meanings given by section 189(1) of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 -

"antecedent negotiations";

"conditional sale agreement";

"credit sale agreement";

"hire-purchase agreement".