
1998 No. 1208
CONSUMER PROTECTION
The Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tours (Amendment) Regulations 1998
Made 10th May 1998
Laid before Parliament 13th May 1998
Coming into force 30th June 1998

Whereas the Secretary of State is a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to consumer protection as regards package travel, package holidays and package tours:

Now, therefore the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by section 2(2) of that Act hereby makes the following Regulations:—
Citation and Commencement
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tours (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 30th June 1998.
Interpretation
2 
Terms used in these Regulations shall have the same meaning as in the Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tours Regulations 1992 (“the principal Regulations”).
Application of regulation 4
3 
Regulation 4 below shall not apply where a brochure is made available to a consumer at any time which is identical to a brochure first made available to consumers generally before 1st October 1998.
Requirements as to brochures
4 
In paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations the words “nationals of the member State or States in which the brochure is made available” shall be substituted for the words “British citizens”.
Information to be provided before contract is concluded
5 
In regulation 7(2)(a) of the principal Regulations the words “nationals of the member State or States concerned” shall be substituted for the words “British Citizens”.
Nigel Griffiths
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Competition and Consumer Affairs,
Department of Trade and Industry
10th May 1998