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A
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Bill
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To
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Make
provision for the prevention of unsolicited commercial e-mail; to amend
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the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling)
Regulations 2000; and for
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connected purposes.
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and
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consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present
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Parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:—
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1 Amendment
of the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000
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(1) The
Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 are amended as
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follows.
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(2) After
regulation 24 (Inertia Selling), there is inserted—
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“24A Prohibition
of sending unsolicited commercial e-mails
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(1) It
shall be an offence to send unsolicited commercial e-mails.
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(2) In
this regulation—
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“commercial
e-mails” means e-mails which advertise goods and
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services.
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“unsolicited”
means, in relation to commercial e-mails, that they
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are
sent without any prior request made by or on behalf of the
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recipient.
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(3) A
person who commits an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable
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to
a fine for each e-mail sent.
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(4) The
Secretary of State shall specify in regulations the level of fines to
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apply
in respect of an offence committed under subsection (1).
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(5) Regulations
made under this section shall be made by statutory
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instrument
which shall be subject to approval by each House of
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Parliament.”
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