P-40.1, r. 3 - Regulation respecting the application of the Consumer Protection Act

Section 91.20 Disposition versions

2024-11-07

91.20. An itinerant merchant is exempt from the application of subparagraphs b and c of the first paragraph of section 244.7 of the Act where the following conditions are met:

(a)  he presented himself at the address of the consumer upon the latter’s express request;

(b)  the request does not follow initial contact by the merchant with the consumer, by telephone or otherwise, for the purpose of obtaining authorization or an invitation to call on the consumer in order to present a product or give an estimate, or for any other reason;

(c)  the request is to obtain an estimate for goods or services;

(d)  the itinerant merchant enters into a contract, upon the consumer’s express request and at the consumer’s address, the sole object of which is the estimate; and

(e)  where the contract is a long-term contract of lease of goods, it must not be high-cost.

S.Q. 2024, c. 32, s. 68.