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The Consumer Credit (Agreements) Regulations 1983

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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Consumer Credit (Agreements) Regulations 1983 and shall come into operation on 19th May 1985.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

the Act” means the Consumer Credit Act 1974;

advance paymentincludes any deposit and in relation to a regulated consumer credit agreement includes also any part-exchange allowance in respect of any goods agreed in antecedent negotiations to be taken by the creditor in part-exchange but does not include a repayment of credit or any insurance premium or any amount entering into the total charge for credit;

the APR” means the annual percentage rate of charge for credit determined in accordance with the Total Charge for Credit Regulations and Schedule 7 to these Regulations and, in the case of modifying agreements, Regulation 7 of, and Part I of Schedule 8 to, these Regulations;

cancellable agreementincludes an agreement which is a modifying agreement treated under section 82(5) of the Act as a cancellable agreement;

cash price” in relation to any goods, services, land or other things means the price or charge at which the goods, services, land or other things may be purchased by, or supplied to, the debtor for cash;

earlier credit agreement” means an earlier agreement for the provision of credit;

earlier hire agreement” means an earlier agreement for the bailment or the hiring of goods;

hire payment” means any payment to be made by the hirer in relation to any period in consideration of the bailment or hiring to him of goods under a regulated consumer hire agreement;

letteringincludes figures and symbols;

modified agreement” means an earlier agreement as varied or supplemented by a modifying agreement, which is treated as—

(a)

revoking the earlier agreement, and

(b)

containing provisions reproducing the combined effect of the two agreements

;

the relevant date” shall be determined in accordance with the Total Charge for Credit Regulations and, in the case of modifying agreements, Regulation 7(7) below;

total charge for creditshall be determined in accordance with the Total Charge for Credit Regulations and, in the case of modifying agreements, Regulation 7 of, and Part I of Schedule 8 to, these Regulations; and

the Total Charge for Credit Regulations” means the Consumer Credit (Total Charge for Credit) Regulations 1980.

(3) In these Regulations, any reference to a repayment is a reference to—

(a)a repayment of the whole or any part of the credit;

(b)a payment of the whole or any part of the total charge for credit; or

(c)a combination of such repayments and payments.

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