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| “business” includes a trade or profession; |
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| “consumer” means a person other than a body corporate, who is acting for |
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purposes which can be regarded as outside his business; |
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| “enforcement authority” means a local weights and measures authority; |
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(a) | in relation to England— |
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(iii) | a London borough council, |
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(iv) | the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity |
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(v) | the Council of the Isles of Scilly, |
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(b) | in relation to Wales, a county council or a county borough |
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(c) | in relation to Scotland, a council constituted under section 2 of |
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the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39); |
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| a “person linked to a trader” means— |
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(a) | a person acting or claiming or purporting to act in the trader's |
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name or on his behalf, or |
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(b) | a person in whose name or on whose behalf the trader is acting |
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or is claiming or purporting so to act; |
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| “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of |
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| “property service” means a service consisting of the doing of something |
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to buildings or land, or fittings, machinery or equipment in or |
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connected with buildings or land, and including the fixing of things to |
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buildings or land or, as the case may be, to things so fixed. |
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| “public telecommunications operator” means— |
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(a) | a person authorised, by a licence to which section 9 of the |
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Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12) applies, to run a public |
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telecommunications system, or |
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(b) | a person to whom the telecommunications code has been |
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applied pursuant to section 10 of that Act; |
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| “statutory undertaker” means any public gas transporter, water or |
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sewerage undertaker, any holder of a licence under section 6 of the |
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Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29), or any public telecommunications operator; |
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| “trader” means a person who is acting for the purpose of his business |
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whether for profit or not, and anyone acting in the name or on behalf of |
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such a person, but does not include the following persons— |
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(b) | a government department, |
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(c) | a statutory undertaker acting for the purpose of repairing or |
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replacing equipment or apparatus provided by them on the |
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premises concerned, or taking a meter reading, |
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(d) | any other person carrying out functions under any enactment, |
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(e) | a landlord exercising rights under a lease, |
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(f) | a person acting on behalf or at the request of any of the persons |
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mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e) above and (if appropriate) in |
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the circumstances mentioned in those paragraphs, |
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13 | Corresponding provision for Northern Ireland |
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An Order in Council under paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to the Northern |
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Ireland Act 2000 (c. 1) (legislation for Northern Ireland during suspension of |
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devolved government) which contains a statement that it is made only for |
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purposes corresponding to those of this Act. |
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14 | Short title, commencement and extent |
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(1) | This Act may be cited as the Property Repairs (Prohibition of Cold-calling) Act |
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(2) | This Act shall not come into force until such day as the Secretary of State may |
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by order made by statutory instrument appoint. |
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(3) | Subject to subsection (4), this Act extends to England, Wales and Scotland. |
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(4) | Section 13 extends to Northern Ireland only. |
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