FAIR TRADING ACT 1987 - SECT 80 Evidence as to publication

FAIR TRADING ACT 1987 - SECT 80

80 Evidence as to publication

(1) In any proceedings under this Act--

(a) where a published statement is intended, or apparently intended, to promote the supply or use of any goods or services, or the sale or grant of an interest in land, and

(b) a name, business name, address, telephone number, post office box number or newspaper office reply number specified in the statement is that of a person, or the agent of a person, who--

(i) is the owner, whether alone or jointly with another person or other persons, of the goods or interest in land,

(ii) is the supplier of the goods or services,

(iii) has an interest, otherwise than as owner, in the goods, or

(iv) has an interest, otherwise than as supplier, in the supply of the services,

it shall be presumed, unless the contrary is established, that the person or agent, as the case may be, caused the statement to be published.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a person who causes a statement to be published shall be deemed to have done so on each day on which the statement is published.