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06/05/2005
Ballymoney car dealer fined
A Ballymoney car dealer has been fined for not displaying prices on cars for sale. Crieth Motors of Market Street was fined £800 plus £40 court costs at Coleraine Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
The prosecutions resulted from a survey in the Ballymoney area to check the level of price information available to consumers across a range of goods for sale. Compliance by car dealers, butchers, pubs and home bakeries was particularly poor and court action was taken against the motor dealer as the advice has been repeatedly ignored.
Trading Standards Area Inspector Anthony Haughan said: “It is important that all products on sale to consumers are properly priced. This is a simple legal requirement which helps consumers make comparisons before deciding to purchase.”
The case was brought under the Prices Act 1974 by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment’s Trading Standards Service.
(MB)
The prosecutions resulted from a survey in the Ballymoney area to check the level of price information available to consumers across a range of goods for sale. Compliance by car dealers, butchers, pubs and home bakeries was particularly poor and court action was taken against the motor dealer as the advice has been repeatedly ignored.
Trading Standards Area Inspector Anthony Haughan said: “It is important that all products on sale to consumers are properly priced. This is a simple legal requirement which helps consumers make comparisons before deciding to purchase.”
The case was brought under the Prices Act 1974 by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment’s Trading Standards Service.
(MB)
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