Consumer Rights Act 2022

Offence

140. (1) This section applies where an authorised body—

(a) publishes under section 139 (1) a copy of an order under section 137 (1) declaring that the term of a consumer contract to which the order relates is unfair, or

(b) publishes a notice under section 139 (3) setting out that term.

(2) Where, after the date on which the authorised body publishes an order or notice in respect of which this section applies, a trader—

(a) enters into a consumer contract containing the term to which the order or notice, as the case may be, relates, or

(b) seeks to rely on that term in a consumer contract (whenever concluded),

the trader commits an offence.