Consumer Rights Act 2022

Chapter 2

Consumer rights in digital content contracts and digital service contracts

Right to supply digital content or digital service

50. (1) Where digital content or a digital service is to be supplied under a digital content contract or digital service contract, the trader shall ensure that the trader has the right to supply the digital content or digital service to the consumer at the time at which it is to be supplied.

(2) Without prejudice to any enactment or rule of law affecting the validity of the digital content contract or digital service contract, where the trader does not have the right to supply the digital content or digital service in accordance with subsection (1), the consumer shall have the right to terminate the digital content contract or digital service contract.

(3) Where the consumer has the right to terminate the digital content contract or digital service contract under subsection (2) and wishes to exercise that right—

(a) the consumer shall exercise that right in accordance with section 66 , and

(b) the trader shall comply with the obligations in section 67 .

(4) In case of dispute, it shall be for the trader to show that the trader had the right to supply the digital content or digital service.