{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/timeshare-holiday-products-resale-and-exchange-contracts-regulations-2010/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/timeshare-holiday-products-resale-and-exchange-contracts-regulations-2010/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2960",
  "legislation_title": "The Timeshare, Holiday Products, Resale and Exchange Contracts Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/timeshare-holiday-products-resale-and-exchange-contracts-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Language of the contract",
  "text": "(1) A trader must not enter into a regulated contract unless it complies with the requirements of this regulation, so far as applicable.\n(2) The contract must be drawn up in English and may, in addition, be drawn up in another language.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) If a trader fails to draw up the contract in English the contract is unenforceable against the consumer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 17(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Timeshare, Holiday Products, Resale and Exchange Contracts (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1397), regs. 1, 2(4)(a) (with reg. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1347, regs. 1(3), 3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 17(3)(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Timeshare, Holiday Products, Resale and Exchange Contracts (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1397), regs. 1, 2(4)(b) (with reg. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1347, regs. 1(3), 3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Timeshare, Holiday Products, Resale and Exchange Contracts (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1397), regs. 1, 2(4)(c) (with reg. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1347, regs. 1(3), 3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2960/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:22:51.770907+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."
}