Section 3Sec./Art. 3

Definition of Terms. - For the purpose of this Act, the following terms shall mean:

(a) Business establishment any person, natural or juridical, whether single proprietorship, partnership or corporation, including a government-owned and -controlled corporation or a government entity exercising its proprietary functions, engaged in, or doing business in the Philippines, either in selling goods or providing services;

(b) Chang the excess in the payment given by a consumer for goods and services purchased or received from a business establishment;

(c) Consume a natural person who purchases goods or services in cash;

(d) Goods all types of tangible property that could be bought and sold, and the possession of which could be transferred in whole or in part, temporarily or permanently;

(e) Gross sale the total invoice value of sales, before deducting for customer discount, allowances and returns;

(f) Insufficient change a change that is less than what is due the consumers;

(g) Price-tag any device written, printed, affixed or attached to a good, or displayed in a consumer retail or service establishment for the purpose of indicating the retail price per unit or services;

(h) Services all types of commercial activities which enable the supply, access to, consumption or use of goods, intellectual property or other services; and

(i) Shortchange the act of giving insufficient or no change to a consumer who purchased a product or service.