Part 4: Consumer rights and disputes Introduction Section 224: Overview
This Chapter largely recreates the legal effect (with minor amendments) of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1277) and has the same core objective of protecting consumers from unfair commercial practices. The regulations were made to implement in the UK the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive 2005/29/EC (UCPD).
	This section provides an overview of the sections in this Chapter on unfair business to consumer commercial practices.
	Section 225 sets out the unfair commercial practices that are prohibited.
	Sections 226 to 230 set out details of commercial practices that are misleading, aggressive, omit material information, or contravene the requirements of professional diligence.
	Section 231 sets out how the unfair commercial practices are enforced by public bodies.
	Sections 232 to 235 confer the consumer rights of private redress in relation to certain unfair commercial practices and provide for related matters.
	Section 236 sets out what the consumer may do when they are supplied with a product from a trader that they did not request.
	Sections 237 to 241 set out the criminal offences in relation to unfair commercial practices and provide for related matters.
	Sections 242 to 252 set out miscellaneous and interpretative provisions as well as consequential and transitional provisions.