Third

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2010

BILL 33

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

CONSUMER PROTECTION AND BUSINESS PRACTICES ACT NO.2

Received and Read the First Time ...................................................................................................

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

Committee ............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE

HARRY HARDING

Minister

of Government Services

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Consumer Protection and Business Practices

Act. It would enable a consumer to

start an action against a manufacturer by

broadening the definition of a

"supplier" to include a person engaged in the business of

manufacturing, importing, producing or assembling goods; and

removing the requirement that,

in order to start an action, the consumer enter into the transaction directly with

a supplier.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CONSUMER PROTECTION AND

BUSINESS PRACTICES ACT NO. 2

Analysis

S.2 Amdt.

Definitions

S.10 Amdt.

Remedies of consumers

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2009 cC-31.1

as amended

1. Paragraph 2(

j) of the Consumer Protection and Business Practices Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

(j) "supplier" means a person who, as a

principal or agent, in the course of his or her business

(

i) offers or advertises the sale of goods or

services to a consumer,

(ii) engages in a consumer transaction with a

consumer, or

(iii) manufactures, imports, produces or assembles

goods,

and includes an assignee of the rights and obligations of a supplier.

2. Subsection 10(1) of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

Remedies of consumers

(1) Where

a consumer has suffered damage as a result of an unfair business practice or

unconscionable act or practice, he or she may start an action against a

supplier.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer