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Version date: 24 May 2024 - onwards

242 Powers to amend this Chapter

(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations amend Schedule 20 (commercial practices which are in all circumstances considered unfair) so as to -

(a) add a description of a commercial practice;

(b) remove a description of a commercial practice;

(c) amend a description of a commercial practice.

(2) If regulations under subsection (1) amend Schedule 20 so as to add a description of a commercial practice, the regulations must also amend section 237(8) so as to make that practice an excluded description of practice.

(3) The Secretary of State may by regulations amend section 232(7) (rights of redress: prohibited practices) so as to -

(a) add further commercial practices that are unfair under this Chapter to the list of prohibited practices;

(b) remove from the list of prohibited practices any commercial practices that have been added by regulations.