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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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• Import goods
• distribute products
• rights after a repair
• Implied warranty merchandise

 The case may be the condition stipulated by the producer or importer, distributor or retailer

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

What are your rights in terms of the Common Law read together with the CPA? Section 56(4).

We have been looking at section 56 of the CPA and in our last blog dealt with section 56(3) and repairs and your rights after a repair.

We now turn our attention to section 56 (4) which deals with your residual common law rights.

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• Consumer Protection
• Defective motor vehicle
• Repair Refund Replace
• failed repairs

If a further failure is discovered, the supplier must either replace the goods or refund the consumer.

Section 56 (3) of the Consumer Protection Act, No 68 of 2008 reads as follows:

“If a supplier repairs any particular goods or any component of any such goods, and within three months after the repair, the failure, defect or unsafe feature has not been remedied, or a further failure, defect or unsafe feature is discovered, the supplier must: - (a) replace the goods; or (b) refund to the consumer the price paid by the consumer for the goods.”

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