Electronic Commerce Act 2000
Consumer law to apply.
15.—All electronic contracts within the State shall be subject to all existing consumer law and the F4[role of the National Consumer Agency] in such legislation shall apply equally to consumer transactions, whether conducted electronically or non-electronically.
Annotations
Amendments:
F4
Substituted (1.05.2007) by Consumer Protection Act 2007 (19/2007), s. 40(1) and sch. 3 part 1, S.I. No. 178 of 2007.
Modifications (not altering text):
C5
Functions transferred and references the National Consumer Agency construed as Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (31.10.2014, establishment day) by Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014 (29/2014), s. 39, S.I. No. 367 of 2014.
Transfer of functions to Commission.
39. —(1) All functions that, immediately before the establishment day, were vested in the dissolved bodies are transferred to the Commission.
(2) References in any Act of the Oireachtas passed before the establishment day or in any instrument made before that day under an Act of the Oireachtas to—
(a) the National Consumer Agency, or
(b) the Competition Authority,
shall, on and after that day, be construed as references to the Commission.
(3) A reference in any Act of the Oireachtas passed before the establishment day or in any instrument made before that day under an Act of the Oireachtas to the chief executive of the National Consumer Agency shall, on and after that day, be construed as a reference to the chairperson of the Commission.
(4) This section shall come into operation on the establishment day.