{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-arbitration-agreements-act-1988-repealed-3111997/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-arbitration-agreements-act-1988-repealed-3111997/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/21",
  "legislation_title": "Consumer Arbitration Agreements Act 1988 (repealed 31.1.1997)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-arbitration-agreements-act-1988-repealed-3111997",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Contracting “as a consumer”.",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 1 above a person enters into a contract “as a consumer” if—\n(a) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so; and\n(b) the other party makes the contract in the course of a business; and\n(c) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase, or by section 7 of the Act of 1977, the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption;\nbut on a sale by auction or by competitive tender the buyer is not in any circumstances to be regarded as entering into the contract as a consumer.\n(2) In subsection (1) above—\n“business” includes a profession and the activities of any government department, Northern Ireland department or local or public authority; and\n“goods” has the same meaning as in the Sale of Goods Act 1979.\n(3) It is for those claiming that a person entered into a contract otherwise than as a consumer to show that he did so.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/21/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:48:41.969671+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}