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Guidance Leaflets
Leaflets on a number of topics have been prepared by Aberdeenshire Council to assist businesses comply with the law. These are listed below.
There are a further selection of leaflets available on the Trading Standards Central website.
Scams
A guide to Cons, Scams and Swindles affecting small businesses.
Crafters
A guide to various Trading Standards legislation including product safety affecting small scale crafters and makers of home made products.
Doorstep Selling
A guide to the Doorstep Selling Regulations
Credit Advertising Rules
From October 31st 2004 the old Consumer Credit Advertising Regulations will cease to apply to credit advertisements. The old rules setting out information to be contained in Simple, Intermediate and Full adverts will go completely. In their place come the Consumer Credit (Advertisements) Regulations 2004.
Distance Selling Regulations 2000
The Distance Selling Regulations give certain rights to consumers when they shop from home - regardless of whether the shopping is done by phone, mail order, fax, digital television or over the Internet.
E-Commerce
Businesses who advertise or sell goods or services online must provide the customer with the following information: the full name and geographic address of the business; contact details including an email address.
Animal Feed Hygiene
The Feed (Hygiene & Enforcement)(Scotland) Regulations 2005 exist to ensure that the food chain is further protected:
- firstly, by making sure that additives, premixtures and the feeding stuffs which incorporate them are manufactured under controlled conditions;
- secondly, by ensuring that the supply of such products can easily be traced in the unlikely event of a problem.
Property Misdescriptions
As an estate agent or property developer, the Property Misdescriptions Act demands that you do not falsely describe property. Businesses who do this not only mislead, but might also gain business at the expense of those who tell the truth.
Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1986
The regulations apply to any person who supplies or offers to supply textile products, in the course of a trade or business, in the United Kingdom. Also covered are advertisements intended for retail customers where the advertisements describe the textile product or products in enough detail to enable the products to be ordered.
Weights and Measures Act
Most packages sold in the UK must comply with the 'average quantity system' of weights and measures. Controls are applied principally at the point of production or importation, with strict tolerances to ensure that the average contents of a group of packages is at least the quantity stated on the label.
Doorstep Selling
With effect from 1 October 2008 new regulations to protect consumers and simplify the law came into force.
The 'Cancellation of Contracts Made in a Consumer's Home or Place of Work etc Regulations 2008' (the new Regulations) are aimed at traders who enter into a contract with a consumer at their home or workplace. They also cover contracts made at another individual's home or on an excursion organised by the trader away from their business premises.
More information can be found on the BERR website
- A copy of the new regulations can be downloaded here.
- A copy of the OFT's advice leaflet (Office of Fair Trading)
Age Related Products
Legislation prohibits the sale of certain products to persons under certain ages. The following is designed to guide you through the requirements of the law and assist in compliance.
Video Recordings Act 2010
The packaging of any DVD or video cassette must comply with these requirements and they should not be supplied to anyone under the stated age (to be read in conjunction with the leaflet on Age Related Products).
Hallmarking Act
Goods made from gold, silver and platinum must be hallmarked- this leaflet provides guidance on how the regulations apply;
Packaging ( Essential Requirements) 2003
Manufactureres and packers of all kinds of goods must take the regulations in to account which could not only reduce packing costs but also protect the environment.
