Written Terms
Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Act 1980
Power to Require Writing
51.—(1) The Minister may, by order, following such consultation as he considers necessary, require that a seller of a specified class of goods or a supplier of a specified class of service shall include such particulars as are specified in the order in any specified class of contract or in any guarantee, notice or other writing in relation to such contract.
(2) A person who contravenes an order under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.
Notices as to use of standard form of contract.
52.—(1) The Minister may by order require, in relation to any person acting in the course of a business carried on by him who makes use of a standard form of contract (being a contract for the sale of goods, a hire-purchase agreement, an agreement for the letting of goods or a contract for the supply of a service), that he shall give such notice to the public as the order may specify as to his use of such standard form and as to whether he is or is not willing to contract on any other terms.
(2) A person who contravenes an order under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.
Size of type in printed contracts and other documents.
53.—(1) The Minister may by order prohibit, in relation to goods or services generally or in relation to any specified class of goods or services, any seller of such goods or supplier of such services in the course of a business from making use of any printed contract, guarantee or other specified class of document unless it is printed in type of at least such size as the order prescribes.
(2) In subsection (1) references to printing include type-writing, lithography, photography and other modes of representing or reproducing words in visible form.
(3) A person who contravenes an order under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.
Contracts required to be in writing.
54.—The Minister may by order provide, in relation to goods or services of a class described in the order, that a contract (being a contract for the sale of goods, an agreement for the letting of goods, otherwise than under a hire-purchase agreement, or a contract for the supply of a service) shall, where the buyer, hirer or recipient of the service deals as consumer, be in writing and any contract of such class which is not in writing shall not be enforceable against the buyer or hirer or the recipient of the service.