Fees a trader must not charge a consumer
- Don't charge consumers more than your cost for payment surcharges Trader
UK Statutory Instrument
2012
United Kingdom
Consumer Rights (Payment Surcharges) Regulations 2012
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What's here
1 compliance obligation
Who this Act binds
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- Trader 1
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Traders also bound by 826 other Acts (top 5 shown)
- Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 1995 413 duties
- Companies Act 2006 2006 243 duties
- The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 2008 114 duties
- Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 2016 62 duties
- Building Societies Act 1986 1986 56 duties
What this Act requires
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Citation and commencement
Micro-businesses
“Consumer” and “trader”
Existing micro-businesses
Other definitions
New businesses
The exemption period: existing micro-businesses
Contracts where regulation 4 applies
The exemption period: new businesses
Temporary exemption for micro-businesses and new businesses
Fees any payee must not charge any payer
Application of regulation 6A
Grace periods in which business grows
Complaints
Number of employees of a business
Orders to secure compliance
Employees of a business
Notification of undertakings and orders to the CMA
Employees
Right of redress
Franchises
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Trading Standards (Local Authority)
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