In the UK there are specific agat laws governing the relationship between the agents who attach rentals and their customers, tenants and landlords. The main legislative norms governing these relationships and offering protection contained in the "Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulation 2008", "Accommodation Agency Act 1953", "Property Misdescriptions Act 1991" and others.
The application of these statutory provisions, primarily associated with unfair advertising of renting the property agat and the protection of the customers who buy used when hiring the services of one. Under these rules, certain businesses will be guilty of an offense if:
1. Knowingly or negligently operates contrary to the obligations of "due diligence", agat or in other words to make reasonable actions necessary to its operations in accordance with the law.
If it is aggressive and pressure the customer to take the decision to purchase a product or service, as well as the sheet in law practices that are considered illegal only on the basis of their actual presence in the relationship with the client.
It is important to know that all of the above offenses relate to the activities of professional traders and covering advertising, marketing and sale of the product. As for the agents who attach rentals, the illegal practice will be regarded as one where otpredeleni individuals commit offenses in letting your own rental properties unless it is the only one in which their property or lived It housed their permanent residence and if it is for a period of less than six months.
This is the compliance with professional standards and the application of special skills by the trader in the commercial area that works. The presumption is that the dealer must adhere to certain standards. As an additional condition trader must also observe the general good business practices and approaches cases and clients with "good agat intentions", ie to comply with certain ethical standards in their everyday business.
In the case of the leasing of rental properties in clients must be understood not only property owners and tenants, but potential tenants, as well as persons who have only requested information about the property.
To a violation of the law, outside those specified agat in the trade practices law, there must be a moment of actual, material breach of the economic behavior of the customer. Ie be impaired his ability to make an informed decision on the purchase of a product or service. It will be available not only in possibly hiring a rental property, but also in the so-called "transactional decisions", ie such are oposredsveni and preceding the transaction before establishing relevant rental relationship.
Illegal trade practices include agat both actions and inactions of the merchant if their purpose is to hide important information from the customer which will influence agat his decision to purchase. In this regard particularly negative meaning is attributed to aggressive tactics agat when selling goods and services. The existence of such can be judged if there is increased concern in the decision of the client, which is caused by the actions of the trader, coercion, physical or mental or undue influence.
As an additional requirement to merchants there and make this extra care in transactions with customers in neravnosttoyno situation, such as the elderly or those who do not have enough experience, this fact would lead to a de facto amendment of the definition of standard users of goods and services.
Such are the "Office of fair trading", as well as local "Trading standard officers (TSO)". These authorities have a legal right to carry out test purchases of goods and services, to require agat documents from the merchants, and they want access to the commercial premises. If they are prevented to perform their functions, this in-itself, represents a criminal offense. Guilty of such criminal offense may be both individuals and companies.
In general, breach of trade practices and regulations associated with the imposition of criminal punishment or a criminal fine up to 5,000. If it is proven in court, after the commencement of criminal agat proceedings, the person responsible will be convicted and imprisonment of up to two years. Bodies which should ensure compliance with the legislation against unfair commercial practices, agat can choose a different approach agat and ask the civil court to rule a ban on the illegal practice.
If you establish the infringements they may have other adverse consequences to the merchant as a license withdrawal h
