The Consumer Credit Act 1974 (Commencement No. 6) Order 1980

• Citation: S.I. 1980/50
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (Commencement No. 6) Order 1980.

(2) In this Order, “ the Act ” means the Consumer Credit Act 1974.

Section 2 Appointment of day for application of provisions of the Act to advertisements

For the purposes of paragraphs 8 and 47 of Schedule 3 to the Act (which provide respectively for the application of Part IV of the Act (Seeking Business) to credit and hire advertisements and for the application of certain provisions of that Part to advertisements published for the purposes of certain ancillary credit businesses), the appointed day shall be 6th October 1980.

Section 3 Amendment of Schedule 3 to the Act

Schedule 3 to the Act shall be amended so as to insert express references to the day appointed by article 2 above by the substitution in each of paragraphs 8 and 47 for the words “the day appointed for the purposes of this paragraph” of the words “6th October 1980” .

Section 4 Amendment of other enactments

The amendments specified in paragraphs 24 to 26 and 43 to 45 of Schedule 4 to the Act (which amend certain provisions of the Trading Stamps Act 1964 and the Trading Stamps Act (Northern Ireland) 1965 respectively) shall come into operation on 6th October 1980.

Section 5 Repeals

The repeals specified in Schedule 5 to the Act which are set out in the Schedule to this Order shall come into operation on 6th October 1980.