Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2021
2022-02-23 · 1 vote
· Govt (Finance)
A bill to provide for the extension of authorisation requirements to persons carrying on hire-purchase or consumer-hire business or providing credit indirectly and persons carry…
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A bill to provide for the extension of authorisation requirements to persons carrying on hire-purchase or consumer-hire business or providing credit indirectly and persons carrying on business relating to hire-purchase or consumer-hire agreements or the indirect provision of credit; to provide for the collection and publication of information on credit agreements, hire-purchase agreements and consumer-hire agreements; for those and other purposes to amend the Central Bank Act 1997; to provide for a limit on the interest rate that consumers may be charged under credit agreements and hire-purchase agreements; to provide for a requirement to include the annual percentage rate in a hire-purchase agreement; for those and other purposes to amend the Consumer Credit Act 1995 and to provide for related matters.