Resale Prices Acts

The Resale Prices Act 1964 (c. 58) was a consolidation Act which when passed, now considered all resale price agreements to be against public interest unless proven otherwise.

Resale Prices Act 1964
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to restrict the maintenance by contractual and other means of minimum resale prices in respect of goods supplied for resale in the United Kingdom; and for purposes connected therewith.
Citation	1964 c. 58
Dates
Royal assent	16 July 1964

Resale Prices Act 1976
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to consolidate those provisions of the Resale Prices Act 1964 still having effect, Part II of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1956, and related enactments; and to repeal the provisions of the Resale Prices Act 1964 and the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1968 which have ceased to have any effect.
Citation	1976 c. 53
Dates
Royal assent	26 October 1976
Repealed	1 March 2000
Other legislation
Repealed by	Competition Act 1998
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

Minimum resale price maintenance (MRPM) had ensured that retailers could only sell a product at a price determined by the manufacturer. The abolition of MRPM allowed such retailers to expand; for instance Comet transformed from a small electrical retail chain in Yorkshire to a national discount retailer.

The Resale Prices Act 1976 (c. 53) was repealed on 1 March 2000;^[1] UK competition law having been previously incorporated into the Competition Act 1998.^[2]