United Kingdom · Question · Written question
HL HL11856
Bank Services: Payments
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7 January 2021
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21 January 2021 · Answer
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21 January 2021
Summary
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risk to consumers of untransparent terms and conditions for online payments, and in particular, the risk of signing up to continuous payments in error; and what steps they plan to take
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7 January 2021
Written question
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risk to consumers of untransparent terms and conditions for online payments, and in particular, the risk of signing up to continuous payments in error; and what steps they plan to take
Source: Lords
21 January 2021
Answer
Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, all terms of written contracts must be fair and transparent. If terms in a consumer contract are assessed by a court as unfair, they will not be binding on the consumer, even if the consumer has “accepted” them. The Gov...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-01-07/HL11856
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1274564
- uk · wq-1274564 · source updated 21 January 2021