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OPC (consumer protection office)

In French: OPC (Office de la protection du consommateur)

Definition

The Quebec body that enforces the Consumer Protection Act. It recommends a written contract describing the work, the products, the total price, payment terms and the warranty. It issues itinerant merchant permits: a contract signed at your home after a sales visit can be cancelled within 10 days.

Also called

  • Office de la protection du consommateur

Other names in French

  • Office de la protection du consommateur

Sources

  1. The OPC lists the recommended content of a landscaping contract and notes that an itinerant merchant contract can be cancelled within 10 days.

    Request a contract (lawn and landscaping) · Office de la protection du consommateur

  2. The Consumer Protection Act governs contracts made with itinerant merchants and distance contracts.

    Loi sur la protection du consommateur, RLRQ c. P-40.1 · LégisQuébec, Éditeur officiel du Québec