Consumer Rights Bill 2022
Public bill · Government · Presented
Strengthens and updates consumer law for buying goods, digital content, digital services and ordinary services. It gives shoppers clearer rights if products are faulty, not delivered, badly installed, or don’t match what was promised, and it makes traders repair, replace, refund or reduce the price where needed. It also tightens rules on online selling, cancellation rights for doorstep and distance sales, unfair contract terms, hire-purchase and consumer-hire agreements, and gives regulators stronger tools to tackle misleading practices and enforce consumer protection.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to rights and remedies in contracts between traders and consumers for the sale of goods and the supply of digital content and digital and other services, including by giving effect to Directive (EU) 2019/770 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2019 on certain aspects concerning contracts for the supply of digital content and digital services, Directive (EU) 2019/771 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2019 on certain aspects concerning contracts for the sale of goods, amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2394 and Directive 2009/22/EC, and repealing Directive 1999/44/EC and Articles 1, 3 and 4 of Directive (EU) 2019/2161 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 amending Council Directive 93/13/EEC and Directives 98/6/EC, 2005/29/EC and 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the better enforcement and modernisation of Union consumer protection rules; to amend and consolidate the law relating to unfair terms in contracts between traders and consumers; to amend the Consumer Credit Act 1995 to make provision for rights and remedies in certain hire-purchase agreements and consumer-hire agreements; to amend section 12(13) of the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014; and to provide for related matters.
Last updated 11 September 2024
- Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Primary
- First StageDáil
- Second StageDáil
- Committee StageDáil
- Report StageDáil
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- Second StageSeanad
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- Fifth StageSeanad Enacted
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- Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages Seanad
- Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Committee Stage Seanad
- Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages Dáil
- Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Committee Stage Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Referral to Select Committee Dáil
- Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Second Stage Dáil