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202Meaning of “credit transaction”U.K.
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(1)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, or

(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.

(2)Any reference to the person for whose benefit a credit transaction is entered into is to the person to whom goods, land or services are supplied, sold, leased, hired or otherwise disposed of under the transaction.

(3)In this section—

  • conditional sale agreement” has the same meaning as in the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (c. 39); and

  • services” means anything other than goods or land.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Ss. 197-214 modified (22.2.2008) by The Northern Rock plc Transfer Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/432), art. 17(1), Sch. para. 2(i)

C2Ss. 197-214 modified (8.00 a.m. on 29.9.2008) by the The Bradford & Bingley plc Transfer of Securities and Property etc. Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2546), art. 13(1)(3), Sch. 1 para. 2(i)

C4Ss. 197-214 modified (retrospective to 30.3.2009 at 8.00 a.m.) by The Amendments to Law (Resolution of Dunfermline Building Society) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/814), arts. 1(2), 7, Sch. para. 2(i)

Commencement Information

I1S. 202 wholly in force at 1.10.2007; s. 202 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 1300; s. 202 in force at 1.10.2007 by S.I. 2007/2194, art. 2(1)(d) (with saving in art. 12 and subject to transitional adaptations specified in Sch. 1 and with transitional provisions and savings in Sch. 3)

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