Advice for businesses
Understanding the laws that affect you is an important part of running a successful business. This section is a quick guide to the main rules covering how you sell, how you treat your customers and how you compete.
You can find out about:
- competing fairly
- offering credit
- advertising
- issuing contracts
- selling online or at a distance
- estate agency
- consumer codes of practice.
Download A quick guide to competition and consumer laws that affect your business (pdf 398 kb).
For more detail, see the legal powers area of this website. If you have any doubts about how the law applies to your business, you should seek professional legal advice.
Beyond the competition and consumer laws the OFT enforces, there are other regulations that might affect your business, for example, relating to health and safety, employment and the standard of your products and services. To read about your wider legal duties, you can visit the Business Link website. Business Link is a government funded organisation that provides practical advice and support for businesses.
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- OFT telephone enquiries:08457 22 44 99
- Consumer Direct telephone enquiries:08454 04 05 06