# Consumer Rights Act 2015, Section 3: Contracts covered by this Chapter


(1) This Chapter applies to a contract for a trader to supply goods to a consumer.
(2) It applies only if the contract is one of these (defined for the purposes of this Part in sections 5 to 8)—
(a) a sales contract;
(b) a contract for the hire of goods;
(c) a hire-purchase agreement;
(d) a contract for transfer of goods.
(3) It does not apply—
(a) to a contract for a trader to supply coins or notes to a consumer for use as currency;
(b) to a contract for goods to be sold by way of execution or otherwise by authority of law;
(c) to a contract intended to operate as a mortgage, pledge, charge or other security;
(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;
(e) in relation to Scotland, to a gratuitous contract.
(4) A contract to which this Chapter applies is referred to in this Part as a “contract to supply goods”.
(5) Contracts to supply goods include—
(a) contracts entered into between one part owner and another;
(b) contracts for the transfer of an undivided share in goods;
(c) contracts that are absolute and contracts that are conditional.
(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).
(7) A mixed contract (see section 1(4)) may be a contract of any of those kinds.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/section/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-rights-act-2015/section-3
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