(1) The Consumer Credit Act 1974 ("the CCA 1974") is amended as follows.
(2) After section 51 insert -
"51A Restrictions on provision of credit card cheques
(1) A person who provides credit card cheques otherwise than in accordance with this section commits an offence.
(2) Credit card cheques may be provided only to a person who has asked for them.
(3) They may be provided only on a single occasion in respect of each request that is made.
(4) The number of cheques provided in respect of a request must not exceed three (or, if less, the number requested).
(5) Where a single request is made for the provision of credit card cheques in connection with more than one credit-token agreement, subsections (3) and (4) apply as if a separate request had been made in relation to each agreement.
(6) Where more than one request for the provision of cheques is made in the same document or at the same time -
(a) they may be provided in respect of only one of the requests, but
(b) if the requests relat
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