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Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007

Section 59: Contracts concluded away from business premises

163.This section enables the Secretary of State to make regulations which give consumers the right to cancel contracts concluded in their home or at their workplace with a trader whom they invited to visit them there. Consumers already have rights to cancel contracts where the trader’s visit was unsolicited(10). The Secretary of State will set out the details of the new rights, and the circumstances in which they will apply, in the relevant statutory instrument.

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