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]

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Act excluded by S.I. 1983/1553, reg. 2(7A) (as inserted by S.I. 1984/1600, reg. 2(e))

C2 Act excluded by S.I. 1989/869, arts. 2(1), 3(1), 4(1), 5, 6

C3 Act modified (12.10.1992) by Timeshare Act 1992 (c. 35), s. 12(5); S.I. 1992/1941, art. 2

C4 Act 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))

C5 Act excluded (1.2.2011) by S.I. 1989/869, art. 5A (as inserted by S.I. 2010/1010, regs. 67A, 99(1) (with regs. 100, 101) (as inserted by The Consumer Credit (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1969), reg. 21))

C6 Act: power to amend conferred (21.3.2012) by Energy Act 2011 (c. 16), ss. 30(1), 121(1); S.I. 2012/873, art. 2(a)(vi)

C7 Act applied (with modifications) (21.9.2015) by The Mortgage Credit Directive Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/910), art. 31(2) (with Pt. 4)

Commencement Information

I1 Act partly in force at Royal Assent see s. 192(1)(2)(3); Act wholly in force on 19.5.1985