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Article 4 Prescription of enactmentsI1

United Kingdom

Each of the following is a prescribed enactment for the purposes of section 56(2)(d) or (f) of the Act—

  • the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965f1;

  • the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1967f2;

  • the Trade Descriptions Act 1968f3;

  • the Friendly and Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1968f4;

  • the Fair Trading Act 1973f5;

  • the Health and Safety at Work etc. Actf6;

  • the Consumer Credit Act 1974f7;

  • the Friendly Societies Act 1974f8;

  • the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1975f9;

  • the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1978f10;

  • the Credit Unions Act 1979f11;

  • the Estate Agents Act 1979f12;

  • the Competition Act 1980f13;

  • the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980f14;

  • the Telecommunications Act 1984f15;

  • the Companies Act 1985f16;

  • the Airports Act 1986f17;

  • the Gas Act 1986f18;

  • the Insolvency Act 1986f19;

  • the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986f20;

  • the Building Societies Act 1986f21;

  • the Consumer Protection Act 1987f22;

  • the Water Act 1989f23;

  • the Electricity Act 1989f24;

  • the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990f25;

  • the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990f26;

  • the Broadcasting Act 1990f27;

  • F1...

  • the Water Industry Act 1991f28;

  • the Water Resources Act 1991f29;

  • the Friendly Societies Act 1992f30;

  • the Railways Act 1993f31;

  • the Coal Industry Act 1994f32;

  • the Employment Rights Act 1996f33;

  • the Competition Act 1998f34;

  • the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000f35;

  • the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000f36;

  • the Postal Services Act 2000f37;

  • the Utilities Act 2000f38;

  • Part I of the Transport Act 2000 f39;

  • the Insolvency Act 2000f40;

  • the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001f41;

  • the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 2002f42;

  • the Enterprise Act 2002f43;

  • the Communications Act 2003f44;

  • the Water Act 2003f45;

  • the Consumer Credit Act 2006f46;

  • the Companies Act 2006f47;

  • the Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007f48;

  • the Legal Services Act 2007f49;

  • Schedule 7 to the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008f50;

  • F2 Parts 3 and 4 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013;

  • F3 the Energy Act 2013;

  • F4the Water Act 2014;

  • F5Parts 1 and 2 and Chapter 5 of Part 3 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015;

  • F6the following provisions of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024—

    1. (a)

      Part 1;

    2. (b)

      Part 3;

    3. (c)

      F7... Part 4;

    4. (d)

      Chapter 2 of Part 5.

  • the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978f51;

  • the Audit (Northern Ireland) Order 1987f52;

  • the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989f53;

  • the EEC Merger Control (Distinct Market Investigations) Regulations 1990f54;

  • the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992f55;

  • Part IV of the Airports (Northern Ireland) Order 1994f56;

  • the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996f57;

  • the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999f58;

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  • F9...

  • ...

  • the Energy (Northern Ireland) Order 2003f59;

  • the Competition Act 1998 (Concurrency) Regulations 2004f60;

  • the Financial Services (Distance Marketing) Regulations 2004f61;

  • the Water Services etc. (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2005f62;

  • the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006f63;

  • the Money Laundering Regulations 2007f64;

  • the Business Protection from Misleading Marketing Regulations 2008f65;

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  • the Payment Services Regulations F112017.

  • F12the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013, so far as they apply to distance contracts;

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in art. 4 omitted (1.10.2013) by virtue of The Property Misdescriptions Act 1991 (Repeal) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1575), art. 1, Sch. para. 25

F2

Words in art. 4 inserted (1.4.2014) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/549), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 46(3) (with art. 3)

F3

Words in art. 4 inserted (1.4.2014) by The Energy Act 2013 (Office for Nuclear Regulation) (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/469), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 205(3) (with Sch. 4)

F4

Words in art. 4 inserted (31.3.2017) by The Water Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments etc.) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/506), arts. 1(1), 29

F5

Words in art. 4 inserted (1.10.2015) by The Consumer Rights Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional Provisions, Savings and Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1630), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 6(b)

F6

Words in art. 4 inserted (1.1.2025) by Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (c. 13), s. 339(1), Sch. 30 para. 45(b); S.I. 2024/1226, regs. 1(2), 2(1)(22)

F7

Words in art. 4 omitted (6.4.2025 for specified purposes) by virtue of The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/381), reg. 1(2)(4), Sch. para. 34; S.I. 2025/272, reg. 3; S.I. 2026/284, regs. 1(2), 2(1)(2)

F8

Words in art. 4 omitted (1.10.2015) by virtue of The Consumer Rights Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional Provisions, Savings and Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1630), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 6(a)

F9

Words in reg. 4 omitted (13.6.2014 in relation to contracts entered into on or after that date) by virtue of The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3134), reg. 1(1)(2), Sch. 4 para. 14(a) (with reg. 6)

F10

Words in art. 4 omitted (6.4.2025) by virtue of Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (c. 13), s. 339(1), Sch. 30 para. 45(a); S.I. 2025/272, reg. 2(1)(14)

F11

Word in art. 4 substituted (13.1.2018) by The Payment Services Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/752), reg. 1(6), Sch. 8 para. 13 (with reg. 3)

F12

Words in reg. 4 inserted (13.6.2014 in relation to contracts entered into on or after that date) by The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3134), reg. 1(1)(2), Sch. 4 para. 14(b) (with reg. 6)

Commencement

I1

Art. 4 in force at 20.4.2012, see art. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1

1965 c.12. The Act will be re-named the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 1965 upon commencement of section 2 of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 (c.7).

f2

1967 c.48. The Act will be re-named the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 1967 upon commencement of section 2 of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010.

f3

1968 c.29.

f4

1968 c.55. The Act will be re-named the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 1968 upon commencement of section 2 of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010.

f5

1973 c.41.

f6

1974 c.37.

f7

1974 c.39.

f8

1974 c.46.

f9

1975 c.41. The Act will be re-named the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 1975 upon commencement of section 2 of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010.

f10

1978 c.34. The Act will be re-named the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 1978 upon commencement of section 2 of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010.

f11

1979 c.34.

f12

1979 c.38.

f13

1980 c.21.

f14

1980 c.46.

f15

1984 c.12.

f16

1985 c.6.

f17

1986 c.31.

f18

1986 c.44.

f19

1986 c.45.

f20

1986 c.46.

f21

1986 c.53.

f22

1987 c.43.

f23

1989 c.15.

f24

1989 c.29.

f25

1990 c.40.

f26

1990 c.41.

f27

1990 c.42.

f28

1991 c.56.

f29

1991 c.57.

f30

1992 c.40.

f31

1993 c.43.

f32

1994 c.21.

f33

1996 c.18.

f34

1998 c.41.

f35

2000 c.8.

f36

2000 c.23.

f37

2000 c.26.

f38

2000 c.27.

f39

2000 c.38.

f40

2000 c.39.

f41

2001 asp 2.

f42

2002 c.20. The Act will be renamed the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2002 upon commencement of section 2 of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 (c.7).

f43

2002 c.40.

f44

2003 c.21.

f45

2003 c.37.

f46

2006 c.14.

f47

2006 c.46.

f48

2007 c.17.

f49

2007 c.29.

f50

2008 c.28.

f51

S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9).

f52

S.I. 1987/460 (N.I. 5).

f53

S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19).

f54

S.I. 1990/1715.

f55

S.I. 1992/231 (N.I. 1).

f56

S.I. 1994/426 (N.I. 1).

f57

S.I. 1996/275 (N.I. 2).

f58

S.I. 1999/662 (N.I. 6).

f59

S.I. 2003/419 (N.I. 6).

f60

S.I. 2004/1077.

f61

S.I. 2004/2095.

f62

S.I. 2005/3172.

f63

S.I. 2006/3336 (N.I. 21).

f64

S.I. 2007/2157.

f65

S.I. 2008/1276.