Singapore legislation

Regulation 4

of Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) (Opt-Out Practices) Regulations 2009

Regulation 4

Supply on continuing basis

Subregulation 1

Regulation 3 does not apply to goods or services supplied to a consumer on a continuing basis under a contract between the consumer and supplier, unless the goods or services are deemed to be unsolicited goods or services under this regulation.

Subregulation 2

If a consumer is being supplied with goods or services on a continuing basis and there is a material change in the goods or services, or in the supply of the goods or services, the goods or services are deemed to be unsolicited goods or services from the time of the material change unless the consumer consented in writing to the material change.

Subregulation 3

A consumer is not taken to have consented to a material change for the purposes of paragraph (2) merely because the supplier gave notice to the consumer to the effect that the supplier will supply the materially changed goods or services to the consumer unless the consumer instructs the supplier not to supply those goods or services.

Subregulation 4

For the purposes of paragraph (2), a “material change” does not include —

(a)

a change to the price of the goods or services or a renewal of an existing supply of the goods or services, if the goods or services are not otherwise changed; or

(b)

a change that a reasonable person in the position of the consumer would not view as being material.