In this Chapter, references to a trader operating a consumer savings scheme are references to a trader entering into a consumer savings scheme contract.

For the purposes of section 282(1)(a)(ii), it is sufficient for a trader to hold the consumer’s payments in some way other than crediting those payments to a specific account for that consumer and references in this Chapter to a “consumer’s account” are to be construed accordingly.

In this Chapter, “protected payments” are payments, made by a consumer under a consumer savings scheme contract, in respect of which funds in the consumer’s account have not been redeemed.

Subject to subsection (5), in this Chapter, funds are treated as redeemed when the trader provides the consumer with goods, services or digital content in accordance with the terms of the consumer savings scheme contract.

Where a trader provides a consumer with vouchers or credit-tokens which may be redeemed only in respect of goods, services or digital content provided by that trader, funds are treated as redeemed for the purposes of this Chapter only when those vouchers or credit-tokens are redeemed.