Example sentences of "[art] trade [noun pl] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inspector : I must warn that you may be liable under the Trades Descriptions Act . |
| 2 | It is fascinating to study the way that they bent the truth to promote a saleable product , yet even if the Trades Descriptions Act had been in force then , they would hardly ever have broken the law . |
| 3 | Fortuitously , its very title makes the short version acceptable under the Trades Descriptions Act ! |
| 4 | Prosecuting manufacturers of pseudo-vitamins under the Trades Descriptions Act is difficult , a spokesman for the Department of Trade told New Scientist . |
| 5 | The irony was that in normal circumstances she would have insisted on seeing a working installation of a new product if only to satisfy herself that whatever she wrote would n't infringe the Trades Descriptions Act . |
| 6 | BRIAN Thomas Jackson , of Danek Motors in Darlington , last week admitted three charges under the Trades Descriptions Act . |
| 7 | There was a bit in the paper today about er Ratners , in the Samuels outlet selling carriage clocks for three hundred pounds and claiming that they are solid mahogany cases , but as they 're chipboard with a mahogany veneer , and er they 've been had by the Trades Descriptions Act , three , who would pay three hundred pounds for a mahogany one anyway ? |
| 8 | It should be noted that the same definition of " in the course of a business " would appear to be appropriate to the second limb of the definition , concerned with the status of the supplier ; the Court of Appeal in R&B relied on decisions concerned with the meaning of supplies " in the course of business " under the Trade Descriptions Acts ( see Davies v Sumner [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 831 ; Havering LBC v Stephenson [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 1375 ) . |
| 9 | The most senior candidate , Adam Matthews , 16 , of the Socialist Labour Party , said his party would abolish the Queen , generals and public schools , put the Royal Family out to work as wardens in nature parks , and prosecute Arsenal under the Trade Descriptions Act for calling themselves a football team . |
| 10 | Anand pleaded guilty to 18 specimen charges of supplying counterfeit cassettes contrary to the Trade Descriptions Act . |
| 11 | Although by law hire purchase advertising had to be ‘ accurate ’ , there was no reporting process to make this more effective than a formality ( except for the efforts of individual weights and measures inspectors who became concerned about credit provision when their duties were extended by the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 to cover a very wide range of consumer affairs ) . |
| 12 | A flood of consumer legislation passed at much the same time included the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 , the fair Trading Act 1973 , the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
| 13 | He told consumer watchdogs at Havering , Essex , and the Brighton-based mail order firm was fined £200 under the Trade Descriptions Act . |
| 14 | Since the Trade Descriptions Act came into force in 1969 there is substantial and extensive case law deciding the question of due diligence . |
| 15 | The most interesting condition occurs under item 9 ( Liability of seller ) : Under the Trade Descriptions Act , SLAD may not stipulate the period of time of this warranty , but it recommends that its members guarantee the authenticity of what they are selling for a period of six years . |
| 16 | Land Travel of Bath admitted making a false statement under the Trade Descriptions Act . |
| 17 | This may give rise to a civil claim for breach of contract on the part of the guest who is double-booked , and may possibly lead to the prosecution of the hoteliers for an offence under section 14 of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 . |
| 18 | Many civil laws are derived from the common law , e.g. tort of negligence , whilst in the area of hotel and catering law the majority of criminal offences which may be committed are statutory , e.g. involving the Food Safety Act 1990 and the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 . |
| 19 | Caterers may come into contact with the Magistrates ' Court in this way if they commit one of a number of offences relating to their profession , for example licensing offences , or offences under the Food Safety Act 1990 , or possibly offences under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 . |
| 20 | But when buying a car , or anything from a trader , you are also protected by another law called the Trade Descriptions Act which , and we 've had that law since nineteen sixty eight . |
| 21 | What the Trade Descriptions Act says is it 's a criminal offence for any trader to describe his goods in a false or misleading way . |
| 22 | So if for example a dishonest car dealer said bargain , thirty thousand miles only , when really it had done ninety thousand miles then that would be a criminal offence under the Trade Descriptions Act . |
| 23 | So those gentlemen were not only infringing the Sale of Goods Act they were committing a criminal offence as well by infringing the Trade Descriptions Act so they ended up being prosecuted by Trading Standards . |
| 24 | But I , I do feel the Trade Descriptions Act is a is a very important er piece of consumer protection designed of course to protect not only you and me as consumer but also designed to protect traders against unfair trading practices . |
| 25 | So in other words you 're covered by the , well you 're covered by both the Sale of Goods Act and the Trade Descriptions Act . |
| 26 | Protection against being misled by false or inaccurate descriptions of goods on sale is provided by the Trade Descriptions Act , 1968 . |
| 27 | The Trade Descriptions Act , 1968 has already been mentioned , but there are two very important voluntary bodies operating in this field — the Advertising Standards Authority and the Independent Broadcasting Authority . |
| 28 | Cigarettes are a type of goods ordinarily bought for private use or consumption and it has been held ( for the purpose of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 ) that a private members ' club is not a business , John v. Matthews ( 1910 D.C. ) , see paragraph 16 — 04 below . |
| 29 | THIS chapter deals with certain important pieces of legislation which protect the consumer in ways other than conferring rights upon individual consumers , the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 , the Fair Trading Act 1973 and Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 . |
| 30 | A particularly important decision was that in R. v. Thomson Holidays ( 1973 C.A. ) where the defendants had already been convicted of an offence under section 14 of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 by making false statements in a holiday brochure . |