The Property Misdescriptions Act 1991 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland which makes the misidentification of various aspects of a properties specifications and particulars a crime.
[1] The Act was repealed by the Property Misdescriptions Act 1991 (Repeal) Order 2013, which was made aware to the House on 28 June 2013.
[2] The repeal came into force on 1 October 2013.
[3] Customers of estate agents will instead need to rely on the parallel protections under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, which implement the EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive.
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