The Payment Services Regulations 2017

Valid from 13/01/2018

Refunds for payment transactions initiated by or through a payee U.K.

79.—(1) Where the conditions in paragraph (2) and the requirement in regulation 80(1) are satisfied, the payer is entitled to a refund from its payment service provider of the full amount of any authorised payment transaction initiated by or through the payee.

(2) The conditions are that—

(a) the authorisation did not specify the exact amount of the payment transaction when the authorisation was given in accordance with regulation 67 (consent and withdrawal of consent); and

(b) the amount of the payment transaction exceeded the amount that the payer could reasonably have expected taking into account the payer's previous spending pattern, the conditions of the framework contract and the circumstances of the case.

(3) The payer is entitled to an unconditional refund from its payment service provider of the full amount of any direct debit transactions of the type referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 260/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14th March 2012 establishing technical and business requirements for credit transfers and direct debits in euro and amending Regulation (EC) No 924/2009 M1 .

(4) When crediting a payment account under paragraph (1), a payment service provider must ensure that the credit value date is no later than the date on which the amount of the unauthorised payment transaction was debited.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), the payer cannot rely on currency exchange fluctuations where the reference exchange rate provided under regulation 43(2)(d) or paragraph 3(b) of Schedule 4 was applied.

(6) The payer and payment service provider may agree in the framework contract that the right to a refund does not apply where—

(a) the payer has given consent directly to the payment service provider for the payment transaction to be executed; and

(b) if applicable, information on the payment transaction was provided or made available in an agreed manner to the payer for at least four weeks before the due date by the payment service provider or by the payee.

Marginal Citations

M1 OJ L 94, 30.3.2012, p.22.