{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-descriptions-act-1968/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-descriptions-act-1968/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/29",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Descriptions Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-descriptions-act-1968",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "False trade description.",
  "text": "(1) A false trade description is a trade description which is false to a material degree.\n(2) A trade description which, though not false, is misleading, that is to say, likely to be taken for such an indication of any of the matters specified in section 2 of this Act as would be false to a material degree, shall be deemed to be a false trade description.\n(3) Anything which, though not a trade description, is likely to be taken for an indication of any of those matters and, as such an indication, would be false to a material degree, shall be deemed to be a false trade description.\n(4) A false indication, or anything likely to be taken as an indication which would be false, that any goods comply with a standard specified or recognised by any person or implied by the approval of any person shall be deemed to be a false trade description, if there is no such person or no standard so specified, recognised or implied.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 3(1) amended (1.1.1975) by Hallmarking Act 1973 (c. 43), s. 1(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/29/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:22.375175+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."
}