Part III Licensing of Credit and Hire Businesses
Licensing principles
21 Businesses needing a licence.
(1)
Subject to this section, a licence is required to carry on a consumer credit business or F1a consumer hire business or an ancillary credit business .
(2)
A local authority does not need a licence to carry on a business.
(3)
A body corporate empowered by a public general Act naming it to carry on a business does not need a licence to do so.