Outlawed

Banned practices under the new legislation:

The legislation bans 31 types of misleading or aggressive commercial practice, including:

• advertising a product as free when it isn't

• falsely claiming a product can cure an illness

• pretending a product is available only for a limited time in order to rush a consumer

• creating an impression that a consumer has won a prize when there is none or where the person will incur a loss overall

• hounding a consumer with unwanted calls, faxes or e-mails

• directly exhorting children to buy a product, or their parents to buy it for them

• failing to display prices of products