Misleading Price Indications
The Act created a crime of giving a misleading price indication in Part III where a person, in the course of business gives, by any means whatever, to a consumer an indication that is misleading as to the price at which any of the following is available (s.20):
- Goods;
- Services or facilities, including (s.22):
- Credit or banking or insurance services, and incidental facilities;
- Purchase or sale of foreign currency;
- Supply of electricity;
- Provision of parking for motor vehicles or caravans, not including permanent residential caravan sites; or
- Accommodation, but not an interest in land unless (s.23):
- It was created or will be disposed of in the course of business; or
- It involves the sale of a new dwelling to a resident.
An offender can be sentenced, on summary conviction to a fine of up to the statutory maximum for Magistrates' Courts or, on conviction on indictment in the Crown Court to an unlimited fine (s.20(4)).
Read more about this topic: Consumer Protection Act 1987
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