Trading Standards Areas of Activity
What we do
Trading Standards deal with requests for service from all sectors of the community. Areas of activity include:
- Agricultural business advice
- Calibration
- Car clocking
- Civil law
- CIS quality mark
- Computer games/CD's
- Consumer advice
- Consumer credit (advertising, licensing, agreements)
- Consumer protection
- Counterfeit goods
- e-Commerce (distance selling, internet sales)
- Fair trading
- Fertilizer and feeding stuffs
- Fibre content
- Fireworks
- Food standards
- Hallmarking
- Holidays
- Home authority
- Illegal trading
- Labelling
- Lotteries
- Metrology
- Misleading pricing
- Nightwear
- Nursery goods
- Product safety (unsafe products)
- Property misdescriptions
- Responsible retailer award
- Road traffic (overloaded vehicles, unroadworthy vehicles)
- Second hand goods
- Solvents
- Taxi meter testing
- Toys
- Trade descriptions
- Trademarks
- Under age sales
- Unfair contract terms (terms and conditions)
- Unsafe products
- Unsolicited goods and services
- Video recordings
- Weighbridges
- Weights and measures
Last updated: 08 October 2009
