Consumer Rights Act 2022
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Effect of termination of sales contract on ancillary contract | ||
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33. (1) Where a consumer terminates a sales contract in accordance with section 28 , any ancillary contract shall be automatically terminated without any cost to the consumer. | ||
(2) When a trader is informed by a consumer in accordance with section 28 of the consumer’s decision to terminate a sales 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 30 , and | ||
(b) the consumer shall comply with the obligation in section 28 (1)(b). | ||
(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 any other person (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 sales 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. |