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RULES on door-to-door selling have been strengthened in a bid to protect vulnerable residents.
The new laws, which were introduced earlier this month (October), by Cambridgeshire County Council Trading Standards, will provide greater protection against high pressure doorstep salesmen.
The rules aim to protect all consumers who buy products and services from traders at home, regardless of whether the sales visit was unannounced or arranged.
Cllr Sir Peter Brown, Cambridgeshire County Council's Cabinet Member for the Economy, Environment and Climate Change, said: 'Cambridgeshire County Council Trading Standards is at the forefront nationally of tackling rogue traders. This new law is a welcome addition to consumers' rights and our armoury when it comes to prosecuting people who deliberately use high pressure sales on some of the most vulnerable members of our communities.'
Under the new laws, where goods or services cost over 35, consumers will have a seven day cooling-off period when they can cancel the contract. Sellers must provide buyers with written notice of their rights.
Previously the law only applied to people cold-calling residents, which meant vulnerable residents could be subject to high pressure sales tactics and sign contracts they can not afford.
But under the new rules, homeowners will now have protection if they invite a trader to their house.
Cathy Inman, Doorstep Project Manager for Cambridgeshire County Council Trading Standards, said: 'As well as increasing consumer protection, these new regulations will make the law in this area clearer and more consistent. If traders do not comply any contract agreed with a customer will not be legally binding. More importantly, traders will be breaking the law and could face prosecution and a fine of up to 5,000.'
INFORMATION: Any traders or residents seeking further advice should contact Cambridgeshire Trading Standards on 0845 0455206 or email trading.standardscambridgeshire.gov.uk Share or bookmark this with... Furl
Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's prime minister-designate, has decided to attend next week's regional summit in Swaziland aimed at rescuing a stalled power-sharing deal.
'We are not boycotting Monday's meeting,' Nelson Chamisa, a spokesman for Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), told the AFP news agency on Friday.
'It is our hope that this meeting will bring closure and finality to this issue of power sharing and enable Zimbabwe to respond to the dire situation which the people are facing,' Chamisa said.
'Window of opportunity'Tsvangirai had refused to go to Swaziland for a meeting with Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, and four other regional leaders on October 20, in protest that he was only given emergency travel documents at the last minute.Earlier in the week, the MDC had hinted Tsvangirai could also skip next week's summit in Harare.
The rival parties signed a deal one month ago for Mugabe to remain president and Tsvangirai to assume the new position of prime minister, but they have been unable to reach an agreement on who should control the key cabinet portfolios.
The power-sharing government is deadlocked over a disagreement on how ministries should be shared between the ruling Zanu-PF party of Mugabe, the MDC, and its splinter faction led by Arthur Mutambara.The leaders of South Africa, Angola, Swaziland and Mozambique - who form the security committee of the Southern African Development Commission - are expected to help Zimbabwe's leaders break the deadlock.
Chamisa said the opposition hopes the summit will be able to break the impasse.
'Monday's platform gives us a special window of opportunity to state our compelling case for the equitable distribution of key ministries under the power sharing agreement,' he said.
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