{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unfair-terms-in-consumer-contracts-regulations-1999/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unfair-terms-in-consumer-contracts-regulations-1999/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2083",
  "legislation_title": "The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unfair-terms-in-consumer-contracts-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Powers of the CMA and qualifying bodies to obtain documents and information",
  "text": "(1) The CMA , a local weights and measures authority or DETINI may exercise the power conferred by this regulation for the purpose of–\n(a) facilitating its consideration of a complaint ...; or\n(b) ascertaining whether a person has complied with an undertaking or court order as to the continued use, or recommendation for use, of a term in contracts concluded with consumers.\n(2) A qualifying body specified in Part One of Schedule 1 (other than a local weights and measures authority or DETINI), may exercise the power conferred by this regulation for the purpose of–\n(a) facilitating its consideration of a complaint ...; or\n(b) ascertaining whether a person has complied with–\n(i) an undertaking given to it or to the court following an application by that body, or\n(ii) a court order made on an application by that body,\nas to the continued use, or recommendation for use, of a term in contracts concluded with consumers.\n(3) The CMA may require any person to supply to it, and a qualifying body specified in Part One of Schedule 1 may require any person to supply to it–\n(a) a copy of any document which that person has used or recommended for use, at the time the notice referred to in paragraph (4) below is given, as a pre-formulated standard contract in dealings with consumers;\n(b) information about the use, or recommendation for use, by that person of that document or any other such document in dealings with consumers.\n(4) The power conferred by this regulation is to be exercised by a notice in writing which may–\n(a) specify the way in which and the time within which it is to be complied with; and\n(b) be varied or revoked by a subsequent notice.\n(5) Nothing in this regulation compels a person to supply any document or information which he would be entitled to refuse to produce or give in civil proceedings before the court.\n(6) If a person makes default in complying with a notice under this regulation, the court may, on the application of the CMA or of the qualifying body, make such order as the court thinks fit for requiring the default to be made good, and any such order may provide that all the costs or expenses of and incidental to the application shall be borne by the person in default or by any officers of a company or other association who are responsible for its default.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (1.10.2015) by Consumer Rights Act 2015 (c. 15), s. 100(5), Sch. 4 para. 34; S.I. 2015/1630, art. 3(g) (with savings in art. 6(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 13(1) substituted (1.4.2014) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/549), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 26(5)(a)(i) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(1) inserted (28.3.2013) by The Public Bodies (The Office of Fair Trading Transfer of Consumer Advice Scheme Function and Modification of Enforcement Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/783), arts. 1(2), 10(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 13(1) substituted (1.4.2014) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/549), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 26(5)(a)(ii) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(1)(a) omitted (28.3.2013) by virtue of The Public Bodies (The Office of Fair Trading Transfer of Consumer Advice Scheme Function and Modification of Enforcement Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/783), arts. 1(2), 10(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(2) inserted (28.3.2013) by The Public Bodies (The Office of Fair Trading Transfer of Consumer Advice Scheme Function and Modification of Enforcement Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/783), arts. 1(2), 10(5)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(2)(a) omitted (28.3.2013) by virtue of The Public Bodies (The Office of Fair Trading Transfer of Consumer Advice Scheme Function and Modification of Enforcement Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/783), arts. 1(2), 10(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in reg. 13(3) substituted (1.4.2014) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/549), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 26(5)(b)(i) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in reg. 13(3) substituted (1.4.2014) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/549), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 26(5)(b)(ii) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in reg. 13(6) substituted (1.4.2014) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/549), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 26(5)(c) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Word in reg. 13 heading substituted (1.4.2014) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/549), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 26(5)(d) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 13 in force at 1.10.1999, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2083/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:14:48.548738+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."
}