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This legislation has been repealed.

DOOR-TO-DOOR SALES ACT 1969 (REPEALED) - SECT 5

5. (1) This Act applies to a credit purchase agreement entered into at a place other than premises occupied by the vendor otherwise than as the result of an unsolicited request by the purchaser to the vendor to attend at that place for the purpose of entering into the agreement, making the offer that led to the agreement or conducting the negotiations that led to the entering into of the agreement or the making of the offer.

(2) For the purposes of this section—

        (a)     a credit purchase agreement entered into as a result of an offer made at a place other than premises occupied by the vendor, or as a result of negotiations leading to the agreement or the offer conducted at a place other than premises occupied by the vendor, shall be deemed to have been entered into at that place; and

        (b)     a credit purchase agreement shall be deemed not to have been made as the result of an unsolicited request by the purchaser if it is made following more than one attendance at a place of residence (whether by the vendor or by the same person or different persons on behalf of the vendor) and the first of those attendances did not follow such an unsolicited request.

(3) Nothing in this Act applies to or in relation to an agreement entered into by a purchaser in the ordinary course of his trade, business, profession or calling.

Conditions relating to credit purchase agreements to which Act applies



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