Protecting consumers Law
消费者保护法
ກົດໝາຍວ່າດ້ວຍ ການປົກປ້ອງຜູ້ຊົມໃຊ້
Summary
This Law aims to protect the lawful rights and interests of consumers, regulate the conduct of business operators, and clarify the fundamental principles and scope of application of consumer protection. It stipulates the rights enjoyed by consumers in the purchase of goods or receipt of services, and provides definitions of relevant terms, so as to promote fair trade and market order.
Articles
Article 1
Article 1
Objectives
The Law on Consumer Protection determines principles, regulations and
measures for the organization, administration, monitoring and inspecting the
consumer protection works in order to strengthen the consumer protection affairs, to
ensure legitimate interests and safety for consumers from negative impacts as a result
from consumption of goods and services, to promote the domestic production, the
importation, the distribution of goods and the services with good quality, according to
the standards, properly and accordance with the laws and regulations, aiming at
maintaining the justice, peace and public orders of society, to make the living
standard of the people of all ethnics being better, contributing to the national socio-
economic development.
Article 2
Article 2
Consumer Protection
Consumer protection shall be the use of measures to protect life, health,
properties, legitimate rights and interests of consumers as a result of impacts from the
consumption of goods and services, such as food, medicines, cosmetics, health
treatments, as well as the settlement of disputes occurred between the consumers and
the supplier as stipulated in the laws and regulations.
Article 3
Article 3
Definitions
The terms used in this Law shall have the meanings as described below:
1. Consumer means an individual, a legal entity or an organization who buys
and uses the goods and the services legally without trading purpose;
2. Supplier means an individual, a legal entity or an organization, which
produces, sells, distributes, buys for re-selling, and provides services, imports for
selling and delivering.
3. Label means a picture, a creation, a paper or any mark that showing the
statements which describing about the goods which required to be appeared on the
goods, the container, the packaging or be inserted in or put together with the goods,
including the documents or the user manual come along with the goods;
4. Service means the serving, the permission for using, the giving of benefit in
the property with the purpose of receiving compensation in forms of cash or any other
kinds of benefits.
5. Contract means the agreement between the consumer and the supplier for
purchasing or selling the goods or using and providing the services;
6. Horizontal advertising means different types of billboard advertisements in
public areas and at launching ceremony of new goods and services.
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