{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/section-277",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/section-277.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2024/13",
  "legislation_title": "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024",
  "path": "section/277",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "277",
  "heading": "Power to make further provision in connection with this Chapter",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision—\n(a) about how and when information or a notice that a trader is required to give to a consumer under this Chapter may or must be given;\n(b) about the information that is to be contained in a notice given under this Chapter;\n(c) about the arrangements that a trader must make under section 260 to enable a consumer to exercise a right to bring a subscription contract to an end, and about when a consumer may exercise such a right;\n(d) specifying the period of time within which the refund of an overpayment must be made under section 261(2)(b);\n(e) specifying descriptions of cases for the purposes of section 273(2) (and about the day on which a contract renews for those purposes).\n(2) Regulations under subsection (1)(c) may include (among other things) provision restricting the period of notice that a trader may require a consumer to give to bring a subscription contract to an end.\n(3) Regulations under this section are subject to the negative procedure.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 277 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 339(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/section/277",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:35:09.592730+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."
}