{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-consumer-subscription-contracts-cancellation-and-information-regulations-2026/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-consumer-subscription-contracts-cancellation-and-information-regulations-2026/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Restrictions on the right to cancel a subscription contract for the supply of digital content only",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies—\n(a) to a subscription contract for the supply of digital content only, and\n(b) if the trader begins the supply of the digital content to the consumer before the end of the period of 14 days beginning with the day after the day on which the subscription contract is entered into.\n(2) If the conditions in paragraph (3) are met, the consumer loses the right to cancel the subscription contract under section 264(1)(a) of the DMCCA (right to cancel during the initial cooling-off period) when the supply of the digital content to the consumer begins.\n(3) The conditions are that before the trader begins the supply of the digital content to the consumer—\n(a) the consumer—\n(i) gives their express consent to the trader for the trader to begin the supply of the digital content, and\n(ii) acknowledges that the right to cancel the contract under section 264(1)(a) of the DMCCA will be lost when that supply begins, and\n(b) the trader gives the consumer confirmation of both that consent and acknowledgement in writing on a durable medium.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 330 of the DMCCA for the definition of “digital content”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "And see section 272(8) of the DMCCA which provides that any information that a trader gives to a consumer under these Regulations must be given in clear and plain language and, if given in writing, be in legible form."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348287912/regulation/7",
    "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."
}