Uk Online Selling Regulations

Online selling distance selling you must provide certain information if youre selling goods or services through digital tv by mail order or by phone or text message.

Uk online selling regulations. This guide provides information about distance purchases made in the uk on or. If you are selling food online it is a legal requirement to. Businesses must provide certain information when using distance selling to sell goods or services.

The consumer contracts regulations. Follow the vat rules and reporting rules if youre selling in eu countries. They came into action in 2002 and every commercial website is affected by them.

This piece of legislation replaces the distance selling regulations. Buying digital goods and services online. Online selling as well as the rules for distance selling there are extra rules for selling online.

Registering as a food business. Electronic sales eg online are covered by similar rules even if you are selling to business customers but without the cancellation rights. If you sell at distance online by mail order or phone the consumer contracts formerly distance selling regulations apply.

In addition to those rules there are extra regulations for selling online especially on digital services that consumers. The consumer contracts information cancellation and additional charges regulations apply to sales of goods or services to consumers without face to face contact. Advice to businesses selling food online 1 december 2016 advice to businesses selling food online this factsheet aims to help businesses who sell food online understand their obligations under food law including the need to register as a food business.

This includes selling by mail order online using digital television or by telephone fax or text message. Page 4 3 the uks registration scheme 31 the uks registration scheme for the online retail selling of a medicine is set out in regulations 256a to 256n of the human medicines regulations 2012. Amongst other things these give consumers some rights to cancel purchases.

In most cases the rules for distance selling apply to sales made by text message or phone by mail order or through digital tv. Regulations for selling online. The regulations replaced the former distance selling regulations.

From 13 june 2014 the consumer contracts regulations which implement the european consumer rights directive into uk law apply to all purchases you make at a distance for example online or over the phone.