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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Cancellation of Contracts made in a Consumer's Home or Place of Work etc. Regulations 2008 No. 1816
8.—(1) If the consumer serves a cancellation notice within the cancellation period then the contract is cancelled.
(2) A contract which is cancelled shall be treated as if it had never been entered into by the consumer except where these Regulations provide otherwise.
(3) The cancellation notice must indicate the intention of the consumer to cancel the contract and does not need to follow the form of cancellation notice set out in Part II of Schedule 4.
(4) The cancellation notice must be served on the trader or another person specified in the notice of the right to cancel as a person to whom the cancellation notice may be given.
(5) A cancellation notice sent by post is taken to have been served at the time of posting, whether or not it is actually received.
(6) Where a cancellation notice is sent by electronic mail it is taken to have been served on the day on which it is sent.
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