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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-consequential-amendments-and-repeals-order-2001/article-170",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3649",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-consequential-amendments-and-repeals-order-2001",
  "path": "article/170",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "170",
  "heading": "Enforcement of agreements made by unlicensed trader",
  "text": "In section 40 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (enforcement of agreements made by unlicensed trader), after subsection (5) insert—\n“(6) This section does not apply to a regulated agreement, other than a non-commercial agreement, made by a consumer credit EEA firm unless at the time it was made that firm was precluded from entering into it as a result of—\n(a) a consumer credit prohibition imposed under section 203 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; or\n(b) a restriction imposed on the firm under section 204 of that Act.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 170 in force at 1.12.2001, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3649/article/170",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:23:30.014012+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."
}