Section 11 Minimum resale prices maintained by other means.

United Kingdom

(1)

It is unlawful for a supplier to withhold supplies of any goods from a dealer seeking to obtain them for resale in the United Kingdom on the ground that the dealer—

(a)

has sold in the United Kingdom at a price below the resale price goods obtained, either directly or indirectly, from that supplier, or has supplied such goods, either directly or indirectly, to a third party who had done so; or

(b)

is likely, if the goods are supplied to him, to sell them in the United Kingdom at a price below that price, or supply them, either directly or indirectly, to a third party who would be likely to do so.

(2)

In this section “the resale price”, in relation to a sale of any description, means—

(a)

any price notified to the dealer or otherwise published by or on behalf of a supplier of the goods in question (whether lawfully or not) as the price or minimum price which is to be charged on or is recommended as appropriate for a sale of that description; or

(b)

any price prescribed or purporting to be prescribed for that purpose by a contract or agreement between the dealer and any such supplier.

(3)

Where under this section it would be unlawful for a supplier to withhold supplies of goods it is also unlawful for him to cause or procure any other supplier to do so.

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (1.3.2000) by 1998 c. 41, ss. 1(c), 74(2)(3), Sch. 14 Pt. I (with s. 73, Sch. 13); S.I. 2000/344, art. 2, Sch.