Trade Descriptions Act

In 1968, the Trade Descriptions Act (the "shoppers' charter") was enacted by parliament, and a farm and garden chemicals bill also became law that same year.

The irony was that in normal circumstances she would have insisted on seeing a working installation of a new product if only to satisfy herself that whatever she wrote wouldn't infringe the Trades Descriptions Act.

Some Trading Standards services have already used the Act against bogus charity collectors and it will be used for some matters that are currently dealt with under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 (e.g. car-clocking) when that Act is repealed in Autumn 2007.