Consumer Credit Act 1974

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Consumer Credit Act 1974

1974 CHAPTER 39

An Act to establish for the protection of consumers a new system, administered by the Director General of Fair Trading, of licensing and other control of traders concerned with the provision of credit, or the supply of goods on hire or hire-purchase, and their transactions, in place of the present enactments regulating moneylenders, pawnbrokers and hire-purchase traders and their transactions; and for related matters.

[31st July 1974]

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C1Act excluded by S.I. 1983/1553, reg. 2(7A) (as inserted by S.I. 1984/1600, reg. 2(e))

C2Act excluded by S.I. 1989/869, arts. 2(1), 3(1), 4(1), 5, 6

C3Act modified (12.10.1992) by Timeshare Act 1992 (c. 35), s. 12(5); S.I. 1992/1941, art. 2

C4Act excluded (21.7.2008 with retrospective effect as stated in s. 8(2) of the amending Act) by Sale of Student Loans Act 2008 (c. 10), ss. 8(1), 14 (with s. 9(5))

Commencement Information

I1Act partly in force at Royal Assent see s. 192(1), (2), (3); Act wholly in force on 19.5.1985