s 3 Contracts covered by this Chapter
(1) This Chapter applies to a contract for a trader to supply goods to a consumer. (2) It applies only if the contract is one of these (defined for the purposes of this Part in sections 5 to 8)— (a) a sales contract; (b) a contract for the hire of goods; (c) a hire-purchase agreement; (d) a contract for transfer of goods. (3) It does not apply— (a) to a contract for a trader to supply coins or notes to a consumer for use as currency; (b) to a contract for goods to be sold by way of execution or otherwise by authority of law; (c) to a contract intended to operate as a mortgage, pledge, charge or other security; (d) in relation to England and Wales or Northern Ireland, to a contract made by deed and for which the only consideration is the presumed consideration imported by the deed; (e) in relation to Scotland, to a gratuitous contract. (4) A contract to which this Chapter applies is referred to in this Part as a “ contract to supply goods ”. (5) Contracts to supply goods include— (a) contracts entered into between one part owner and another; (b) contracts for the transfer of an undivided share in goods; (c) contracts that are absolute and contracts that are conditional. (6) Subsection (1) is subject to any provision of this Chapter that applies a section or part of a section to only some of the kinds of contracts listed in subsection (2). (7) A mixed contract (see section 1(4)) may be a contract of any of those kinds.