Part X Ancillary Credit Businesses
Credit reference agencies
158 Duty of agency to disclose filed information.
1
A credit reference agency, within the prescribed period after receiving,—
a
a request in writing to that effect from any F4partnership or other unincorporated body of persons not consisting entirely of bodies corporate (the “consumer ”), and
b
such particulars as the agency may reasonably require to enable them to identify the file, and
c
a fee of F1£2,
shall give the consumer a copy of the file relating to F2it kept by the agency.
2
When giving a copy of the file under subsection (1), the agency shall also give the consumer a statement in the prescribed form of F3the consumer’s rights under section 159.
3
If the agency does not keep a file relating to the consumer it shall give F3the consumernotice of that fact, but need not return any money paid.
4
If the agency contravenes any provision of this section it commits an offence.
5
In this Act “file ”, in relation to an individual, means all the information about him kept by a credit reference agency, regardless of how the information is stored, and “copy of the file ”, as respects information not in plain English, means a transcript reduced into plain English.