Fair trading
Last updated | 27/05/2008
Perth & Kinross Trading Standards service enforces many pieces of legislation relating to Fair Trading - examples include car clocking, package holidays/timeshare, pricing, consumer credit/loan sharks, product counterfeiting and misdescriptions of goods and services.
- Bogus degrees – fake degrees & qualifications
- Consumer Credit – licensing, agreements, advertising
- Counterfeits & Trade Marks – copyright, fakes & copies
- Distance Selling & E-commerce – online businesses & mail order
- Fair trading & the Enterprise Act – no refund notices, Stop Now notices.
- Footwear labelling
- Hallmarking – marking of precious metals, display of notices
- Package Travel & Holidays - advertising, brochures, contracts & pricing
- Pricing – general pricing of goods & services, menu pricing
- Property descriptions – misleading statements, Estate Agents
- Timeshare – contracts, cancellation
- Unfair Trading & Misleading Marketing – misleading statements & omissions, descriptions of goods & services, aggressive sales techniques
- Videos & DVDs – classification (15, 18 etc.), labelling
