Regulation 3 Differential price indications

(1)

Subject to paragraph (3) below and to the following provisions of these Regulations, where a person gives to consumers an indication of a price—

(a)

at which any goods, services, accommodation or facilities will be or are available; and

(b)

which is not a price applicable to all methods of payment accepted by him,

(“the indicated price”) he shall, before he enters into any contract under which they are to be supplied or, as the case may be, provided, make available to consumers statements of the matters to which this paragraph applies.

(2)

The matters to which paragraph (1) above applies are—

(a)

any method of payment (being a method of payment accepted by the person giving the indication) to which the indicated price does not apply; and

(b)

the difference between the price payable by each such method and the indicated price expressed (as the case may require) as an addition to, or a deduction from, the indicated price in terms of—

(i)

an amount of money, or

(ii)

a percentage of the indicated price.

(3)

Where a person gives to consumers more than one indicated price relating to different methods of payment in respect of the same goods, services, accommodation or facilities,—

(a)

nothing in this regulation shall require a statement to be given of the difference between those prices; and

(b)

all statements under paragraph (1) above may be given in relation to any one indicated price only.