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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-credit-act-2006-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provisions-order-2008/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/831",
  "legislation_title": "The Consumer Credit Act 2006 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-credit-act-2006-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provisions-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“existing agreement” means an agreement made before 6th April 2008 by which the creditor provided the debtor with credit exceeding £25,000;\n“relevant agreement” means a consumer credit agreement of a description set out in Schedule 1;\n“the 1974 Act” means the Consumer Credit Act 1974; and\n“the 2006 Act” means the Consumer Credit Act 2006.\n(2) Expressions used in articles 2 to 4 and Schedule 1 have the same meaning as they have in the 1974 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c.39."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/831/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:32:50.793786+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."
}