{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unsolicited-goods-and-services-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unsolicited-goods-and-services-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1976/57",
  "legislation_title": "Unsolicited Goods and Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unsolicited-goods-and-services-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Demands and threats regarding payment",
  "text": "(1) A person who, not having reasonable cause to believe that 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 coming into operation of this Article) 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 shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(2) A person who, not having reasonable cause to believe that 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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SI 2000/2334"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1984 NI 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2334",
      "affecting_title": "The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/57/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:54:00.173106+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."
}