PART IINTRODUCTORY

Title, commencement and transitional provision1

1

This Order may be cited as the Consumer Protection (Northern Ireland) Order 1987.

2

The following provisions, namely—

a

Part I;

b

Part II and Schedule 1;

c

Article 28 and Schedule 2;

d

paragraphs 3 and 7 of Schedule 3, and Article 35(1) in so far as it relates to those paragraphs of that Schedule; and

e

Article 35(2) and Schedule 4;

shall come into operation on 1st March 1988.

3

The remaining provisions of this Order shall come into operation on such day or days as the Head of the Department may by order appoint.

4

An order under paragraph (3) may contain such transitional provisions as the Head of the Department considers appropriate.

5

Nothing in this Order shall make any person liable by virtue of Part II for any damage caused wholly or partly by a defect in a product which was supplied to any person by its producer before the coming into operation of Part II.

6

Expressions used in paragraph (5) and in Part II have the same meanings in that paragraph as in that Part.