To TS with them.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1277/contents/madeClaiming to be a signatory to a code of conduct when the trader is not.
(SCHEDULE 1) is an
Unfair practice and amounts to a criminal offence.Codes of conduct. In relation to codes of conduct as defined, there are two scheduled
offences:
falsely claiming to be a signatory to a code of conduct; or that the code has
an endorsement from a public or other body.
‘“Code of conduct” means an agreement or set of rules (which is not imposed by legal
or administrative requirements), which governs the behaviour of traders who undertake
to be bound by it in relation to one or more commercial practices or business sectors’ (reg 2).
The following classes of commercial practice are unfair (reg 3(5)(a)-©) and hence
prima facie amount to strict liability offences:(I) Misleading actions (reg 5);
(ii) Misleading omissions (reg 6);
(iii) Aggressive practices (reg 7).
Misleading acts. Reg 5 explains when a practice is unfair because of what it positively
contains. Reg 5(1) stipulates that a commercial practice is ‘a misleading action’ if it
leads a ‘typical consumer’ to take a ‘transactional decision’ which he would not otherwise take
and falls within one of the following types:-
1. Misleading information generally. According to reg 5(2)(a), a commercial practice may fall
within this type - ‘if it contains false information and is therefore untruthful in relation to
any of the matters in paragraph (4) or if it or its overall presentation in any way deceives or
is likely to deceive the typical consumer in relation to any of the matters in that paragraph,
even if the information is factually correct’.
‘False information’ is defined as ‘untruthful’;