Doorstep Selling Clause Samples

Doorstep Selling. This is not a full explanation of the law on "doorstep" selling. We include it here to help you decide whether it applies to you, and to help you to place a notice in your contract document. Doorstep selling is regulated by The Cancellation of Contracts made in a Consumer's Home or Place of Work etc Regulations 2008 ('the Regulations'). The Regulations apply to a wide range of contracts made between traders and service providers in almost any business and his customer or client. The law was created to help protect home owners from rogue builders and aggressive door-to-door salesmen, but applies much more widely to any business that completes a contract at a place other than the premises of that business. Very simply, the Regulations give to the customer a right to cancel the contract within seven days. The trader must give the customer written notice of this right, setting out various prescribed information. Failure to do so is a criminal offence. between a consumer and a trader; which is for the supply of goods or services to the consumer; made during a visit by the trader to the consumer's home or place of work (or to someone else=s house; or made during or after an excursion organised by the trader away from his business premises. A ' consumer' is defined in regulation 2(1) as 'a natural person who in making a contract to which these Regulations apply is acting for purposes which can be regarded as outside his trade or profession'. We give examples of the types of business covered by the Regulations at Doorstep Selling Law: Does It Apply To My Business? Exemptions are listed in Schedule 3 of the Regulations. Mostly they relate to activities which are regulated by other law. An example is financial services. Note however, that the Regulations cover a vast number of agreements. Even a simple agreement, verbal or in writing, to work at or around someone=s house on a small job is not exempt - you will need to provide the same information and your customer has the same rights. be dated; tell the customer he may cancel the contract within seven days; be easily legible; There are strict provisions about what must be in the notice and how it should be given. You can find further information on what you must include at Doorstep selling: how to comply with the law. If you use a written contract, like a Net Lawman template, the notice must be incorporated in the same document. The notice must: be set out in a separate box with the heading ANotice of the Right to C...