5Consequential amendments relating to ss. 1 to 4U.K.
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(2)In section 10 of that Act (running-account credit and fixed-sum credit)—
(a)in subsection (1) for “personal” wherever occurring substitute “ consumer ”;
(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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(5)In subsection (1) of section 158 of that Act (duty of credit reference agency to disclose filed information) for paragraph (a) substitute—
“(a)a request in writing to that effect from a consumer,”.
(6)After subsection (4) of that section insert—
“(4A)In this section ‘consumer’ means—
(a)a partnership consisting of two or three persons not all of whom are bodies corporate; or
(b)an unincorporated body of persons which does not consist entirely of bodies corporate and is not a partnership.”
(7)In section 181(1) and (2) of that Act (power to alter monetary limits etc.) for “8(2), 15(1)(c)” substitute “ 16B(1) ”.
(8)In subsection (5) of section 185 of that Act (agreement with more than one debtor or hirer)—
(a)in paragraph (b) for “a body corporate” substitute “ not an individual ”;
(b)for “the body corporate or bodies corporate” substitute “ each person within paragraph (b) ”.
(9)In subsection (6) of that section after “a body corporate” insert “ within paragraph (b) of that subsection ”.
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