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  "title": "The Small and Medium Sized Business (Credit Information) Regulations 2015",
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  "long_title": "These Regulations are made under Part 1 of the Small Business Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c.26) and impose a duty on designated banks to provide information about their small and medium sized business customers to designated credit reference agencies (‘CRAs’), and a duty, in turn, on designated CRAs to provide credit information about small and medium-sized businesses to finance providers.",
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