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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-credit-credit-reference-agency-regulations-2000/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/290",
  "legislation_title": "The Consumer Credit (Credit Reference Agency) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-credit-credit-reference-agency-regulations-2000",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "CONSUMER CREDIT\nDATA PROTECTION\nMade 8th February 2000\nLaid before Parliament 9th February 2000\nComing into force 1st March 2000\nWhereas the Secretary of State has consulted the Data Protection Commissioner in accordance with section 67(3) of the Data Protection Act 1998:\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 157(1), 158(1) and (2), 159(5) (read with section 160(5)), 160(3) and 182(2) of the Consumer Credit Act 1974, and by section 9(3) of the said Act of 1998, makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1974 c. 39; section 189(1) contains a definition of “prescribed”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/290/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:17.364913+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."
}