# Consumer Credit Act 1974, Introduction: Introductory text

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

An Act to establish for the protection of consumers a new system, administered by the Director General of Fair Trading, of licensing and other control of traders concerned with the provision of credit, or the supply of goods on hire or hire-purchase, and their transactions, in place of the present enactments regulating moneylenders, pawnbrokers and hire-purchase traders and their transactions; and for related matters.
[31st July 1974]

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/39/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-credit-act-1974/introduction
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