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Sections 11(2) and 24(2).

SCHEDULE 2
“Guidelines” for Application of Reasonableness Test

The matters to which regard is to be had in particular for the purposes of sections 6(3), 7(3) and (4), 20 and 21 are any of the following which appear to be relevant—

(a) the strength of the bargaining positions of the parties relative to each other, taking into account (among other things) alternative means by which the customer's requirements could have been met;

(b) whether the customer received an inducement to agree to the term, or in accepting it had an opportunity of entering into a similar contract with other persons, but without having to accept a similar term;

(c) whether the customer knew or ought reasonably to have known of the existence and extent of the term (having regard, among other things, to any custom of the trade and any previous course of dealing between the parties);

(d) where the term excludes or restricts any relevant liability if some condition is not complied with, whether it was reasonable at the time of the contract to expect that compliance with that condition would be practicable;

(e) whether the goods were manufactured, processed or adapted to the special order of the customer.

Section 31(3).

SCHEDULE 2
Amendment of Enactments

In the 56 & 57 Vict. c. 71.Sale of Goods Act 1893—

(a) in section 55(1), for the words the “following provisions of this section” substitute “the provisions of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977”;

(b) in section 62(1), in the definition of “business”, for “local authority or statutory undertaker” substitute “or local or public authority”.

In the 1973 c. 13.
1974 c. 39.Supply of Goods (Implied Terms) Act 1973 (as originally enacted and as substituted by the Consumer Credit Act 1974)—

(a) in section 14(1) for the words from “conditional sale” to the end substitute “a conditional sale agreement where the buyer deals as consumer within Part I of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 or, in Scotland, the agreement is a consumer contract within Part II of that Act”;

(b) in section 15(1), in the definition of “business”, for “local authority or statutory undertaker” substitute “or local or public authority”.