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Consumer Protection (Unsolicited E-mails) Bill


Consumer Protection (Unsolicited E-mails) Bill

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A

Bill

To

Make provision for the prevention of unsolicited commercial e-mail; to amend

the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000; and for

connected purposes.                                                                            

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and

consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

 1     Amendment of the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000

     (1)    The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 are amended as

follows.

     (2)    After regulation 24 (Inertia Selling), there is inserted—

       “24A            Prohibition of sending unsolicited commercial e-mails

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           (1)           It shall be an offence to send unsolicited commercial e-mails.

           (2)           In this regulation—

                                  “commercial e-mails” means e-mails which advertise goods and

services.

                                  “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

recipient.

           (3)           A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable

to a fine for each e-mail sent.

           (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).

           (5)           Regulations made under this section shall be made by statutory

instrument which shall be subject to approval by each House of

Parliament.”

 
Bill 119 53/2
 
 

Consumer Protection (Unsolicited E-mails) Bill

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 2     Short title and extent

     (1)    This Act may be cited as the Consumer Protection (Unsolicited E-mails) Act

2003.

     (2)    This Act extends to Northern Ireland.

 

 

 
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