Consumer Protection Act 1999 · Updated to 1 Nov 2021 · Part VI · Rights Against Suppliers in Respect of
48. Liability for representation
Feedback & supportWhere goods assigned or procured to be assigned to the supplier by a person acting in trade (the “dealer”) are supplied to a consumer, every representation made to the consumer by the dealer or by any person acting on the dealer’s behalf in connection with, or in the course of negotiations leading to, the supply of the goods shall give the consumer—
goods
“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;
as against the supplier, subject to section 49, the same rights as the consumer would have had under this Act if the representation had been made by the supplier personally; and
as against the dealer who made the representation and any person on whose behalf the dealer was acting in making it, the same rights against any or all of them personally as the consumer would have had under this Act if that person had supplied the goods to the consumer as a result of the negotiations.
Without prejudice to any other rights or remedies to which a supplier may be entitled, a supplier shall be entitled, where the representation was made without his express or implied authority, to be indemnified by the dealer who made the representation and by any person on whose behalf the dealer was acting in making it, against any damage suffered by the supplier through the operation of subsection (1).
supplier
“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)…