Consumer Rights Act 2022
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Effect of termination of digital content contract or digital service contract on ancillary contract | ||
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70. (1) Where a consumer terminates a digital content contract or digital service contract in accordance with section 66 , any ancillary contract shall be automatically terminated without any cost to the consumer. | ||
(2) Where a trader is informed by a consumer in accordance with section 66 of the consumer’s decision to terminate a digital content contract or digital service contract, the trader shall inform any other trader with whom the consumer has an ancillary contract of its termination by subsection (1). | ||
(3) Where an ancillary contract is terminated by subsection (1)— | ||
(a) the trader with whom the consumer has that contract shall comply with the obligations in section 67 , and | ||
(b) the consumer shall comply with the obligations in section 66 (3) and (4). | ||
(4) Where any security has been provided under an ancillary contract that is terminated by subsection (1), it is to be treated as never having had effect and any property lodged with the trader or a person other than the trader (a “third party”) solely for the purposes of that security shall be returned immediately by the trader or third party. | ||
(5) In this section, “ancillary contract”, in relation to a digital content contract or digital service contract concluded between a consumer and a trader (in this subsection referred to as the “principal contract”), means another contract concluded between that consumer and that trader, or that consumer and a third party, under which— | ||
(a) the trader, or | ||
(b) in pursuance of arrangements made between the trader and a third party, the third party, | ||
supplies to the consumer goods, digital content, a digital service or a service related to the principal contract. |