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• Consumer Law
• Fixed Term Agreements
• Lease cancellations
• Expiry of fixed term agreement
• Pre-existing fixed term agreements

 If the consumer has not made the election by the expiry date, the agreement will continue automatically on a month-to-month basis.

Section 14 of The Consumer Protection Act No 68 of 2008 (CPA):

In our last blog, we looked at the wording of the whole of section 14 (1) and commented on its content and the background to the section.

Today we will concentrate on section 14 (2) of the CPA and also regulation 5.

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• Legal Advice
• Consumer Law
• Consumer Protection Act
• franchise agreement
• time share agreement
• Lease cancellations

Certain TIME-SHARE AGREEMENTS are not “fixed term” agreements as they have no term. 

Lease cancellations:

Section 14 of The Consumer Protection Act No 68 of 2008 (CPA):

In our last blog we looked at the wording of the whole of section 14 of the CPA and also at the full wording of regulation 5.

Today we will concentrate on section 14 (1) of the CPA.

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• Legal Advice
• Consumer Law
• Fixed Term Agreements
• termination of fixed term lease agreement
• cancellation of lease

Get insight into both the Common & Consumer Law before terminating a commercial lease agreement earlier

 When one has an issue with a commercial lease agreement and especially where one wants to terminate the agreement early one has to have insight into both the Common Law and Consumer Law.

 During the course of this month, we intend concentration on this aspect of consumer and commercial law.

The Consumer Protection Act No 68 of 2008 (CPA):

In the above context and as per our opening statement above; there are two important aspects of the CPA which need to be applied.

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