TY  - JOUR
T1  - ASEAN Consumer Contract Laws: Consumer Remedies in
Malaysia and Singapore
AU - Tze Chin, Ong AU - Shaik Ahmad Yusoff, Sakina 
JO  - International Business Management
VL  - 11
IS  - 6
SP  - 1328
EP  - 1335
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5250
DO  - ibm.2017.1328.1335
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2017.1328.1335
KW  - Consumer protection
KW  -consumer contracts
KW  -sale of goods
KW  -remedies
KW  -Malaysia and Singapore
KW  -legislations
AB  - In the era of globalisation with the complexities of the chain of trading and sales, consumers are no
longer the market players but the weakest group in the market economy. One of the most effective ways in
providing consumer protection is through consumer right to redress. The right to redress raises the issues of
remedies in law. Remedies are often linked with rights, rights and remedies are intertwined, the right derives from
the remedy and as a matter of sequence the remedy precedes the right. Consequently, the absence of a remedy
points to the non-existence of a legal right. With the formal establishment of ASEAN Community 2015 and
towards the ASEAN Community Vision 2025, consumer protection is among others, one of the criteria in a
deeper integration process in achieving people-oriented and people centred ASEAN Community. The
enactment of consumer protection legislations among the ASEAN countries marked a new era of consumer
protection in ASEAN. In Malaysia with the increase awareness of consumerism, the Consumer Protection Act
1999 was enacted to provide a comprehensive scheme of protection for consumers. After many years of
lobbying, Singapore has also enacted the Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act in 2003. Nevertheless the
difference in the approach taken by the legislature in each country calls for a comparative study of the remedial
scheme provided by the relevant legislation. This study aims at analysing the similarities and differences in the
remedies available to consumers in sale of goods contracts under the Malaysian Consumer Protection
Act 1999 and the Singaporean Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act 2003. Malaysia and Singapore, being
among the founding fathers of ASEAN have been chosen as the focus of study based on the similarities in their
legal traditions and the English law being the origin of the countrie’s sale legislations. Adopting the doctrinal
legal research methodology this study emphasises on the comparative, analytical and critical approaches in the
study of consumer’s sale of goods remedies under the Malaysian and Singaporean legislations.
ER  -