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Consumer Protection
resale or manufacturing; and includes any act or set of acts or sale to
consumers which is the subject of a consumer dispute or an action under this
Act;
"safe product" means a product or service which does not present any risk
to health, environment and safety of persons or property when used for the
assumed purpose or in a way in which it is expected to be used:
Provided that a product shall not be considered dangerous only because it
is possible to obtain higher levels of safety or because another safer product
is available;
"sale" includes an agreement to sell or offer for sale;
"seller" means a person regularly engaged in retail trade or
who participates in some act or set of acts of retail trade, which is the subject
of a consumer dispute or action under this Act;
"service" means service of any description, which is made available to
potential users and includes the provision of facilities in connexion with
health, insurance, banking, including the rendering of a service free of charge
or under a contract or personal service;
"Supplier" in relation to a service or technology, includes a person who
performs a service or transfers technology and a person" who arranges the
performance of a service or the transfer of technology, goods or services to
another person;
"subordinate court" bears the same meaning as defined in the Courts Act;
"technology", "technology transaction" or "technology transfer" includes,
mutatis mutandis, systematic knowledge or a transaction involving the
transfer of systematic knowledge for the manufacture of a product, for the
application of a process or for the rendering of a service and does not extend
to the transactions involving the mere sale or mere lease of goods;
"trader" in relation to any technology, goods or services means any
person who sells or distributes, supplies or provides any technology,
goods or services and includes the manufacturer thereof, and where
goods are sold or distributed in package form includes the packer of
the goods;
"trade practice" means any practice related to the carrying on of any trade;
includes anything done or proposed to be done by any person which affects
or is likely to affect the method of trading of any trader or class of traders, or
the production, supply or price in the course of trade of any goods whether
real or
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