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Consumer Protection Act 1999 · Updated to 1 Nov 2021 · Part XIV · General and Miscellaneous

140. Receipts

(1)

A person who supplies or offers to supply any goods or services shall provide the consumer with a receipt for any purchase of goods or services exceeding the prescribed value.

(2)

Notwithstanding anything contained in subsection (1), a consumer shall be supplied with a receipt for any purchase of goods or services if the consumer so requests.

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(3)

A receipt issued under this section shall contain the following particulars:

(a)

the trade name and address of the supplier;

(b)

the date of purchase;

(c)

the amount of money paid for each item of purchase;

(d)

the total amount of money paid including a separate statement of any amount paid as tax;

(e)

where applicable, the make and model number of the goods; and

(f)

any other particulars as may be prescribed in the regulations.

(4)

The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, exempt any business or class of business from this section.

(5)

Any person who contravenes this section commits an offence.

Terms defined in s 3

business
Defined · s 3
“business” means any undertaking that is carried on whether for gain or reward or not and in the course of which goods or services are acquired or supplied whether at a price or otherwise;
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consumer
Defined · s 3
“consumer” means a person who— (a) acquires or uses goods or services of a kind ordinarily acquired for personal, domestic or household purpose, use or consumption; and (b) does not acquire or use the goods or services, or hold himself out as acquiring or using the goods or services, primarily for the purpose of— (i) resupplying them in trade; (ii) consuming them in the course of a manufacturing process; or (iii) in the case of goods, repairing or treating, in trade, other goods or fixtures on land;
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goods
Defined · s 3
“goods” means goods which are primarily purchased, used or consumed for personal, domestic or household purposes, and includes— (a) goods attached to, or incorporated in, any real or personal property; (b) animals, including fish; (c) vessels and vehicles; (d) utilities; and (e) trees, plants and crops whether on, under or attached to land or not, but does not include choses in action, including negotiable instruments, shares, debentures and money;
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prescribed
Defined · s 3
“prescribed” means prescribed by or under this Act or any regulations made under this Act, and where no mode is mentioned, means prescribed from time to time by order published in the Gazette;
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regulations
Defined · s 3
“regulations” means regulations made under this Act;
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services
Defined · s 3
“services” includes any rights, benefits, privileges or facilities that are or are to be provided, granted or conferred under any contract but does not include rights, benefits or privileges in the form of the supply of goods or the performance of work under a contract of service;
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supplier
Defined · s 3
“supplier” means a person who, in trade— (a) supplies goods to a consumer by transferring the ownership or the possession of the goods under a contract of sale, exchange, lease, hire or hire-purchase to which that person is a party; or (b) supplies services to a consumer, and includes— (i) where the rights of the supplier have been transferred by assignment or by operation of law, the person for the time being entitled to those rights; (ii) a financier who has lent money on the security of goods supplied to a consumer, if the whole or any part of the price of the goods is to be paid out of the proceeds of the loan and if the loan was arranged by a person who, in trade, supplied the goods; (iii) a person who, in trade, assigns or procures the assignment of goods to a financier to enable the financier to supply those goods, or goods of that kind, to the consumer; and (iv) a person who, in trade, is acting as agent for another person where that other person is not supplying in trade; *NOTE—This Act has replaced the Companies Act 1965 which came into operation on 31 January 2017–see subsection 620(1)…
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trade
Defined · s 3
“trade” means any trade, business, industry, profession, occupation, activity of commerce or undertaking relating to the supply or acquisition of goods or services;
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140. Receipts

Terms defined in s 3

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