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Fair Trading Act 1986

Safety of services

34: Meaning of services

You could also call this:

“This section explains what 'services' means in this law, like fixing things or building houses”

In this part of the law, services mean different types of work that people do. You might see services when someone fixes or cleans things you own. Services can also be when someone builds or repairs a building. Another type of service is when someone develops land, which means they prepare it for use. Lastly, services include moving goods from one place to another. These are all examples of services that this law is talking about.

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Part 4 Safety of services

34Meaning of services

  1. For the purposes of this Part services means the performance of work by way of—

  2. the maintenance, repair, treatment, processing, installation, assembly, cleaning or alteration of goods:
    1. the construction, maintenance, repair, cleaning or alteration of any building or other fixture on land:
      1. the development of land:
        1. the transportation of goods.