{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-rights-act-2015/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-rights-act-2015/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/15",
  "legislation_title": "Consumer Rights Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-rights-act-2015",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Contracts covered by this Chapter",
  "text": "(1) This Chapter applies to a contract for a trader to supply goods to a consumer.\n(2) It applies only if the contract is one of these (defined for the purposes of this Part in sections 5 to 8)—\n(a) a sales contract;\n(b) a contract for the hire of goods;\n(c) a hire-purchase agreement;\n(d) a contract for transfer of goods.\n(3) It does not apply—\n(a) to a contract for a trader to supply coins or notes to a consumer for use as currency;\n(b) to a contract for goods to be sold by way of execution or otherwise by authority of law;\n(c) to a contract intended to operate as a mortgage, pledge, charge or other security;\n(d) in relation to England and Wales or Northern Ireland, to a contract made by deed and for which the only consideration is the presumed consideration imported by the deed;\n(e) in relation to Scotland, to a gratuitous contract.\n(4) A contract to which this Chapter applies is referred to in this Part as a “contract to supply goods”.\n(5) Contracts to supply goods include—\n(a) contracts entered into between one part owner and another;\n(b) contracts for the transfer of an undivided share in goods;\n(c) contracts that are absolute and contracts that are conditional.\n(6) Subsection (1) is subject to any provision of this Chapter that applies a section or part of a section to only some of the kinds of contracts listed in subsection (2).\n(7) A mixed contract (see section 1(4)) may be a contract of any of those kinds.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 1.10.2015 by S.I. 2015/1630, art. 3(a) (with art. 6(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:53.853097+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."
}