{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-credit-act-1974-commencement-no-1-order-1975/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-credit-act-1974-commencement-no-1-order-1975/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/2123",
  "legislation_title": "The Consumer Credit Act 1974 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-credit-act-1974-commencement-no-1-order-1975",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointment of days",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 to the Act (which provides for the coming into operation of sections 35 and 36 of the Act), the appointed day shall be 2nd February 1976.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraphs 44 and 45 of that Schedule (which provide respectively for the application of section 21(1) of the Act to ancillary credit businesses and of section 148(1) to agreements made in the course of such businesses), in the case of any ancillary credit business so far as it comprises or relates to—\n(a) debt-adjusting,\n(b) debt-counselling,\n(c) debt-collecting, or\n(d) the operation of a credit reference agency,\nthe appointed day shall be 3rd August 1976.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/2123/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:48:15.297171+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}