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Consumer Guarantees Act 1993

Miscellaneous provisions - Exceptions

41: Exceptions

You could also call this:

“When this law doesn't work: gifts from friends and charity help”

This law doesn’t apply when goods or services are given to you outside of a business setting. For example, if your friend gives you something for free, this law doesn’t cover that.

The law also doesn’t let you take action against a charity if they give you goods or services mainly to help you. For instance, if a charity gives you food or clothes, you can’t use this law to complain about those items.

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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Exceptions

41Exceptions

  1. Nothing in this Act shall apply in any case where goods or services are supplied otherwise than in trade.

  2. Nothing in this Act shall give any person a right of redress against a charitable organisation in any case where goods or services are supplied by the charitable organisation for the principal purpose of benefiting the person to whom the supply is made.

  3. Repealed
Notes
  • Section 41(3): repealed, on , by section 12 of the Consumer Guarantees Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 144).