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Guidance on unfair terms in care home contracts
— a guide for professional advisers | | Corporate Author | Office of Fair Trading - OFT |
| Publisher | Office of Fair Trading - OFT, London, 2003 |
| Pages | 51 pp (OFT 635) |
| Source | OFT, PO Box 366, Hayes, UB3 1XB. oft@eclogistics.co.uk |
| Keywords | Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Residents [care homes] ; Financial services [older people] ; Complaints [services] ; Contracts ; Law. |
| Annotation | This is the first issue of the Office of Fair Trading's guide to potentially unfair terms in agreements made by care homes with older people. A first draft guide was published as an annex to the OFT's 1998 report, "Older people as consumers in care homes". This guide is based on a review of a sample of agreements and the OFT's experience of enforcing the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/2083). It explains the test of unfairness set out in the Regulations; sets out the main areas of concern; and discusses the types of unfair term listed in Schedule 2 of the Regulations, also additional categories of unfair terms that are not. An annex contains some examples of unfair and revised terms. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040107202 B |
| Classmark | KW: LHB: KX: J: QLV: 6QH: VR |
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