- Y Diweddaraf sydd Ar Gael (Diwygiedig)
- Pwynt Penodol mewn Amser (08/11/2006)
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(1)The following subsections apply for the interpretation of sections 330 to 346.
(2)“Guarantee” includes indemnity, and cognate expressions are to be construed accordingly.
(3)A quasi-loan is a transaction under which one party (“the creditor”) agrees to pay, or pays otherwise than in pursuance of an agreement, a sum for another (“the borrower”) or agrees to reimburse, or reimburses otherwise than in pursuance of an agreement, expenditure incurred by another party for another (“the borrower”)—
(a)on terms that the borrower (or a person on his behalf) will reimburse the creditor; or
(b)in circumstances giving rise to a liability on the borrower to reimburse the creditor.
(4)Any reference to the person to whom a quasi-loan is made is a reference to the borrower; and the liabilities of a borrower under a quasi-loan include the liabilities of any person who has agreed to reimburse the creditor on behalf of the borrower.
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(6)“Relevant company” means a company which—
(a)is a public company, or
(b)is a subsidiary of a public company, or
(c)is a subsidiary of a company which has as another subsidiary a public company, or
(d)has a subsidiary which is a public company.
(7)A credit transaction is a transaction under which one party (“the creditor”)—
(a)supplies any goods or sells any land under a hire-purchase agreement or a conditional sale agreement;
(b)leases or hires any land or goods in return for periodical payments;
(c)otherwise disposes of land or supplies goods or services on the understanding that payment (whether in a lump sum or instalments or by way of periodical payments or otherwise) is to be deferred.
(8)“Services” means anything other than goods or land.
(9)A transaction or arrangement is made “for” a person if—
(a)in the case of a loan or quasi-loan, it is made to him;
(b)in the case of a credit transaction, he is the person to whom goods or services are supplied, or land is sold or otherwise disposed of, under the transaction;
(c)in the case of a guarantee or security, it is entered into or provided in connection with a loan or quasi-loan made to him or a credit transaction made for him;
(d)in the case of an arrangement within subsection (6) or (7) of section 330, the transaction to which the arrangement relates was made for him; and
(e)in the case of any other transaction or arrangement for the supply or transfer of, or of any interest in, goods, land or services, he is the person to whom the goods, land or services (or the interest) are supplied or transferred.
(10)“Conditional sale agreement” means the same as in the M1Consumer Credit Act 1974.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 331(5) repealed by Banking Act 1987 (c. 22, SIF 10), s. 108(2), Sch. 7 Pt. I
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