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Consumer Guarantees Act 1993

Miscellaneous provisions - Exceptions

43A: Exclusion of liability in favour of non-contracting supplier

You could also call this:

“When you can stop someone who didn't make a deal with you from being responsible”

You can make an agreement that says parts of this law don’t apply to someone who provides services to you, even if you didn’t directly make a deal with them. This agreement can stop that service provider from being responsible under this law. The service provider gets the benefit of not being responsible, even though they weren’t part of the agreement you made.

If you want to know more about what kind of agreement this is talking about, you can look at section 43(2).

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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Exceptions

43AExclusion of liability in favour of non-contracting supplier

  1. An agreement of the kind referred to in section 43(2) may exclude any provision of this Act that applies to a non-contracting supplier of services to the consumer with whom the agreement is made.

  2. The non-contracting supplier has the benefit of the exclusion.

Notes
  • Section 43A: inserted, on , by section 6 of the Consumer Guarantees Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 33).