Ideas About Health Center Terms And Conditions
The fitness marketplace is one of the fastest developing in the Western world, particularly when it comes to gyms and gym subscriptions, which cost several hundred dollars for a membership of a few months. For most users of gym services, the conventional arrangement is to join a registration and the gym fees are taken off each month straight from the user’s credit card or bank account. Given the opportunity for abuse in a system of this variety, contracts for gym membership sometimes run afoul of the EU Directive on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts, adopted in the UK as Consumer Contracts Regulations.
It is this kind of contract that has noticed the Office of Fair Trading engage in a High Court order against gym management company, Ashbourne Management Services Limited after questions were brought up about its consent with consumer credit laws and fairness in contract provisions.
Ashbourne Management Services Becomes A Case Study: Ashbourne created a method of creating membership agreements and obtaining payments. In the terms of the agreement, users were secured into a contract for around three years at a time, in which they were could not terminate their memberships. Those who attempted to do so were often presented with bills worth hundreds of pounds for the remainder of the amount payable on the gym membership contract. Many of the gym users were unable to pay the bill, and were reported to a credit defaulting agency by Ashbourne.
In classic contract law, such an set up would not present an issue. Nonetheless, the proliferation of laws built to defend consumers signifies that such terms are more and more likely to be found against the law and may render part, or your entire contract void. In order to avoid such instances, make sure that your contracts are drafted and/or reviewed by a certified solicitor with expertise in commercial contract drafting.
It is such a contract that has observed the Office of Fair Trading pursue a High Court order towards gym management company, Ashbourne Management Services Limited, after uncertainties were raised about its compliance with consumer credit laws and fairness in contract provisions.
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