Section 217 — Supply of goods or digital content
Extent: E+W+S+N.I.
This version in force from 2025-04-06
Snapshot: 2026-08-24
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(1) This section provides for how references to the supply of goods or digital content are to be read for the purposes of this Part.
(2) References to a person who supplies goods or digital content are to be read as including references to a person who seeks to supply goods or digital content (and references to a person who receives goods or digital content are to be read in a corresponding way).
(3) The supply of goods includes, in relation to buildings and other structures, construction of them by one person for another.
(4) References to a person supplying goods under—
(a) a hire-purchase agreement,
(b) a credit-sale agreement, or
(c) a conditional sale agreement,
are to be read as including references to a person who conducts any antecedent negotiations relating to the agreement.
(5) The following terms have the meanings given by section 189(1) of the Consumer Credit Act 1974— “antecedent negotiations”; “conditional sale agreement”; “credit sale agreement”; “hire-purchase agreement”.