{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-goods-and-services-act-1982/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-goods-and-services-act-1982/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/29",
  "legislation_title": "Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-goods-and-services-act-1982",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "The contracts concerned.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act in its application to England and Wales and Northern Ireland a “relevant contract for the hire of goods” means a contract under which one person bails or agrees to bail goods to another by way of hire, other than a hire-purchase agreement, and other than a contract to which Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 applies.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) For the purposes of this Act in its application to England and Wales and Northern Irelanda contract is a relevant contract for the hire of goods whether or not services are also provided or to be provided under the contract, and ... whatever is the nature of the consideration for the bailment or agreement to bail by way of hire.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1)(3) inserted (3.1.1995) by 1994 c. 35, ss. 7, 8(2), Sch. 2 para. 6(6) (with s. 8(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.10.2015) by Consumer Rights Act 2015 (c. 15), s. 100(5), Sch. 1 para. 38(b); S.I. 2015/1630, art. 3(g) (with art. 6(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1) substituted (E.W.) (6.4.2005) by The Regulatory Reform (Trading Stamps) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/871) {art. 5(b)(i)}; (N.I.) (15.11.2005) by The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1452 (N.I. 7)), arts. 1(2), 21(2)(b)(i); S.R. 2005/494, art. 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1) inserted (1.10.2015) by Consumer Rights Act 2015 (c. 15), s. 100(5), Sch. 1 para. 42; S.I. 2015/1630, art. 3(g) (with art. 6(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 6(2) omitted (E.W.) (6.4.2005) by virtue of The Regulatory Reform (Trading Stamps) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/871) {art. 5(b)(ii)}; and repealed (N.I.) (15.11.2005) by The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1452 (N.I. 7)), arts. 1(2), 21(2)(b)(ii), 24, Sch. 2; S.R. 2005/494, art. 2(1)(b)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(3) omitted (E.W.) (6.4.2005) by virtue of The Regulatory Reform (Trading Stamps) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/871) {art. 5(b)(iii)}; and repealed (N.I.) (15.11.2005) by The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1452 (N.I. 7)), arts. 1(2), 21(2)(b)(iii), 24, Sch. 2; S.R. 2005/494, art. 2(1)(b)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/29/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:12:07.828601+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."
}