SCHEDULE 2 Amendments

PART 1 Amendments to Acts

10 Trade Descriptions Act 1968
In section 12 (false representations as to royal approval or award, etc), after subsection (2) add—

“3 A person shall not be guilty of an offence under subsection (1) or (2) by reason of doing anything that is a commercial practice unless the commercial practice is unfair.
In this subsection “commercial practice” and “unfair” have the same meaning as in the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.”

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