{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unsolicited-goods-and-services-act-1971/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unsolicited-goods-and-services-act-1971/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/30",
  "legislation_title": "Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unsolicited-goods-and-services-act-1971",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Demands and threats regarding payment.",
  "text": "(1) A person who, not having reasonable cause to believe there is a right to payment, in the course of any trade or business makes a demand for payment, or asserts a present or prospective right to payment, for what he knows are unsolicited goods sent (after the commencement of this Act) to another person with a view to his acquiring them for the purposes of his trade or business, shall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction shall be liable to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(2) A person who, not having reasonable cause to believe there is a right to payment, in the course of any trade or business and with a view to obtaining any payment for what he knows are unsolicited goods sent as aforesaid—\n(a) threatens to bring any legal proceedings; or\n(b) places or causes to be placed the name of any person on a list of defaulters or debtors or threatens to do so; or\n(c) invokes or causes to be invoked any other collection procedure or threatens to do so,\nshall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(1) inserted (31.10.2000) by S.I. 2000/2334, reg. 22(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/30/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:09.849171+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."
}