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Fair Trading Act 1986

Safety of services

36: Compliance with services safety standards

You could also call this:

“Follow safety rules when providing services”

If someone makes rules about how to do services safely, you need to follow those rules. These rules are called ‘services safety standards’.

When you provide a service to people, or tell them you can do it, or even just advertise that you can do it, you must follow the safety rules for that service.

Sometimes there might be more than one set of safety rules for a service. If that happens, you only need to follow one of those sets of rules, but you must follow at least one of them.

Remember, these rules are there to keep everyone safe when services are being done.

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Topics:

Business > Fair trading

Business > Industry rules

Money and consumer rights > Consumer protection

35: Safety standards in respect of services, or

“Rules for keeping people safe when getting services”

36A: Purpose of Part, or

“This part explains the rules for different ways of buying things”

Part 4 Safety of services

36Compliance with services safety standards

If a services safety standard in respect of services is prescribed under section 35(1), a person must not supply, or offer to supply, or advertise to supply those services unless that person complies with that services safety standard.
If 2 or more services safety standards in respect of services are prescribed under section 35(1), a person must not supply, or offer to supply, or advertise to supply those services unless that person complies with one of those services safety standards.

Notes

Section 36: substituted, on 28 July 1997, by section 5 of the Fair Trading Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 43).