{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-consumer-subscription-contracts-cancellation-and-information-regulations-2026/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-consumer-subscription-contracts-cancellation-and-information-regulations-2026/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348287912",
  "legislation_title": "The Consumer Subscription Contracts (Cancellation and Information) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-consumer-subscription-contracts-cancellation-and-information-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Cancellation in event of the consumer having more than one right to cancel the contract: cooling-off and breach of implied term",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a consumer cancels a subscription contract under Chapter 2 of Part 4 of the DMCCA and, at that time, the consumer has a right to cancel that contract under—\n(a) section 263(2) of the DMCCA (right to cancel for breach of implied term), and\n(b) section 264(1) of that Act (right to cancel during cooling-off periods).\n(2) Unless the consumer chooses otherwise, the consumer is taken to exercise the right to cancel the contract under whichever of section 263(2) or section 264(1) of the DMCCA results in the most advantageous remedy to the consumer.\n(3) The most advantageous remedy to the consumer is to be determined by reference to whichever of section 263(2) or section 264(1) of the DMCCA results, in accordance with these Regulations, in extinguishing to the greater extent the consumer’s liabilities under the cancelled contract taking into account—\n(a) the extent to which the consumer’s liability for payments that have arisen under the cancelled contract is extinguished, and\n(b) in respect of a contract where goods have been supplied by means of sale to the consumer—\n(i) the extent to which the consumer is treated as having paid for those goods (supplied by means of sale) received under the cancelled contract, and\n(ii) the consumer’s liability (if any) relating to any right of the trader to recover any of those goods under the cancelled contract.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348287912/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:36:45.740550+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."
}