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  Consumer Rights Bill - Schedule 2 - Unfair Consumer Contract - Double Charging
  
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  @ MP voted aye to deem a contract involving double charging an unfair consumer contract.
  @ MP voted no against deeming a contract involving double charging an unfair consumer contract.
  
  The majority of MPs voted against deeming a contract term involving double charging an unfair, and therefore non-binding, consumer contract term.
  
  MPs were considering the Consumer Rights Bill[1]. The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 1, page 51, line 9, at end insertâ
  
  :â1A A term which requires a consumer to pay a charge for, or be liable for, an element of a good or service that another party has also been charged for in the course of the same transaction.â
  
  Had the amendment been accepted the above text would have been added to the list of consumer contract terms which may be regarded as unfair present in the act; 
  
  The Bill sought to make unfair terms in consumer contracts not binding on the consumer while allowing the contract to continue, so far as practicable, to have effect in every other respect.
  
  An example of a contract which would be deemed unfair under this rejected provision was provided during debate by Stella Creasy MP (Walthamstow, Labour)[2]:
  
  :if the estate agent applies a fee to both the buyer and the seller of a property on the same transaction.
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/consumerrights.html Parliament's webpage on the Consumer Rights Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2014-2015 /0003/cbill_2014-20150003_en_7.htm#sch2 Schedule 2 of the Bill as introduced titled ''Consumer contract terms which may be regarded as unfair'']
  * [3] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2014-06-16a.886.0#g887.0 Stella Creasy MP (Walthamstow, Labour), House of Commons, 16 June 2014]
  
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