Package Holidays and Travel Trade Act, 1995

Form of contract.

15.—(1) The organiser (whether dealing directly with the consumer or through a retailer) shall ensure that—

(a) all the terms of the contract are set out in writing or in such other form as is comprehensible and accessible to the intending consumer and are communicated to the intending consumer before the contract is made;

(b) a written copy of these terms is supplied to the consumer.

(2) Subsection (1) (a) shall not apply in the case of a proposal by an intending consumer made to the organiser or the retailer not more than fourteen days before the date of departure under the proposed contract.

(3) An organiser (whether dealing directly with the consumer or through a retailer) who contravenes subsection (1) (b) shall be guilty of an offence unless the contravention is due to the failure of the retailer to provide the consumer with a written copy of the terms of the contract supplied to the retailer by the organiser.

(4) A retailer who fails to provide the consumer with a written copy of the terms of a contract supplied to the retailer by the organiser shall be guilty of an offence.