{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/resale-prices-act-1976-repealed-132000/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/resale-prices-act-1976-repealed-132000/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/53",
  "legislation_title": "Resale Prices Act 1976 (repealed 1.3.2000)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/resale-prices-act-1976-repealed-132000",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Meaning of “withhold supplies” in relation to Part II.",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Part of this Act a supplier of goods shall be treated as withholding supplies of goods from a dealer—\n(a) if he refuses or fails to supply those goods to the order of the dealer;\n(b) if he refuses to supply those goods to the dealer except at prices, or on terms or conditions as to credit, discount or other matters, which are significantly less favourable than those at or on which he normally supplies those goods to other dealers carrying on business in similar circumstances; or\n(c) if, although he contracts to supply the goods to the dealer, he treats him in a manner significantly less favourable than that in which he normally treats other such dealers in respect of times or methods of delivery or other matters arising in the execution of the contract.\n(2) For the purposes of this Part a supplier shall not be treated as withholding supplies of goods on any such ground as is mentioned in section 11(1) above if, in addition to that ground, he has other grounds which, standing alone, would have led him to withhold those supplies.\n(3) If in proceedings brought against a supplier of goods in respect of a contravention of section 11 it is proved that supplies of goods were withheld by the supplier from a dealer, and it is further proved—\n(a) that down to the time when supplies were so withheld the supplier was doing business with the dealer or was supplying goods of the same description to other dealers carrying on business in similar circumstances, and\n(b) that the dealer, to the knowledge of the supplier, had within the previous six months acted as described in section 11(1)(a), or had indicated his intention to act as described in paragraph (b) of that subsection in relation to the goods in question,\nit shall be presumed, unless the contrary is proved, that the supplies were withheld on the ground that the dealer had so acted or was likely so to act.\nThis subsection does not apply where the proof that supplies were withheld consists only of evidence of requirements imposed by the supplier in respect of the time at which or the form in which payment was to be made for goods supplied or to be supplied.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/53/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:28:55.729745+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."
}