{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-rights-payment-surcharges-regulations-2012/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-rights-payment-surcharges-regulations-2012/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/3110",
  "legislation_title": "The Consumer Rights (Payment Surcharges) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-rights-payment-surcharges-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Other definitions",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“business” includes the activities of any government department or local or public authority;\n“CMA” means the Competition and Markets Authority;\n“court” in relation to England and Wales and Northern Ireland means a county court or the High Court, and in relation to Scotland means the sheriff or the Court of Session;\n“digital content” means data which are produced and supplied in digital form;\n“district heating” means the supply of heat (in the form of steam or hot water or otherwise) from a central source of production through a transmission and distribution system to heat more than one building;\n“goods” means any tangible movable items, but that includes water, gas and electricity if and only if they are put up for sale in a limited volume or a set quantity;\n...\n“payee”, “payer”, “payment instrument”, “payment service” and “payment service provider” have the meanings given in regulation 2(1) of the Payment Services Regulations 2017 ;\n“sales contract” means a contract under which a trader transfers or agrees to transfer the ownership of goods to a consumer and the consumer pays or agrees to pay the price , including any contract that has both goods and services as its object;\n“service contract” means a contract, other than a sales contract, under which a trader supplies or agrees to supply a service to a consumer and the consumer pays or agrees to pay the price.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3134), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 15(3)(a) (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 inserted (1.4.2014) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/549), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 48(2)(b) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 omitted (1.4.2014) by virtue of The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/549), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 48(2)(a) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 inserted (13.1.2018) by The Payment Services Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/752), reg. 1(6), Sch. 8 para. 12(3) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3134), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 15(3)(b) (with reg. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3110/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:10:27.693894+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."
}