{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-scotland-act-2020/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-scotland-act-2020/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2020/11",
  "legislation_title": "Consumer Scotland Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-scotland-act-2020",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Meaning of “consumer”",
  "text": "(1) In this Act, “consumer” means—\n(a) an individual—\n(i) who purchases, uses or receives, in Scotland, goods or services which are supplied in the course of a business carried on by the person supplying them, and\n(ii) who is not purchasing, using or receiving the goods or services wholly or mainly in the course of a business carried on by the individual, or\n(b) a business (including a business carried on by an individual)—\n(i) which is no larger than a small business, and\n(ii) which purchases, uses or receives, in Scotland, goods or services which are supplied in the course of a business carried on by the person supplying them.\n(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)—\n(a) a consumer includes both an existing consumer and a potential consumer,\n(b) a person who uses services includes, in relation to postal services, an addressee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 24 in force at 1.4.2022 by S.S.I. 2021/464, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2020/11/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:47.237967+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."
}