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The Consumer Protection (Northern Ireland) Order 1987
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Damage giving rise to liabilityN.I.
8.—(1) Subject to this Article, in this Part “damage” means death or personal injury or any loss of or damage to any property (including land).
(2) A person shall not be liable under Article 5 in respect of any defect in a product for the loss of or any damage to the product itself or for the loss of or any damage to the whole or any part of any product which has been supplied with the product in question comprised in it.
(3) A person shall not be liable under Article 5 for any loss of or damage to any property which, at the time it is lost or damaged, is not—
(a)of a description of property ordinarily intended for private use, occupation or consumption; and
(b)intended by the person suffering the loss or damage mainly for his own private use, occupation or consumption.
(4) No damages shall be awarded to any person by virtue of this Part in respect of any loss of or damage to any property if the amount which would fall to be so awarded to that person, apart from this paragraph and any liability for interest, does not exceed £275.
(5) In determining for the purposes of this Part who has suffered any loss of or damage to property and when any such loss or damage occurred, the loss or damage shall be regarded as having occurred at the earliest time at which a person with an interest in the property had knowledge of the material facts about the loss or damage.
(6) For the purposes of paragraph (5) the material facts about any loss of or damage to any property are such facts about the loss or damage as would lead a reasonable person with an interest in the property to consider the loss or damage sufficiently serious to justify his instituting proceedings for damages against a defendant who did not dispute liability and was able to satisfy a judgment.
(7) For the purposes of paragraph (5) a person's knowledge includes knowledge which he might reasonably have been expected to acquire—
(a)from facts observable or ascertainable by him; or
(b)from facts ascertainable by him with the help of appropriate expert advice which it is reasonable for him to seek;
but a person shall not be taken by virtue of this paragraph to have knowledge of a fact ascertainable by him only with the help of expert advice unless he has failed to take all reasonable steps to obtain (and, where appropriate, to act on) that advice.
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