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Version date: 1 February 2011 - onwards
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Regulation 4 Signing of agreement

(1) The information specified in paragraphs 5, 6, 7, 11 and 14 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations in relation to the type of regulated consumer credit agreement referred to in column 1 shall be "the prescribed terms" for the purposes of section 61(1)(a) of the Act (the terms which must be contained in a document if a regulated consumer credit agreement is not to be improperly executed).

(2) The document containing the prescribed terms of the regulated consumer credit agreement referred to in paragraph (1) shall contain a space indicated for the purpose of the debtor’s signature.

(3) The signature of the document shall be made in the following manner -

(a) by the debtor, or by or on behalf of the debtor in the case of a partnership or an unincorporated body of persons, in the space in the document indicated for the purpose and, subject to sub-paragraph (c), the date of the signature shall be inserted in the space in the document indicated for the purpose,

(b) by the creditor, or by a person on behalf of the creditor, and subject to sub-paragraph (c), the date of the signature shall be inserted in the document,

(c) except where the agreement is cancellable, the date on which the unexecuted agreement becomes an executed agreement may be inserted in the document and in such a case any other date specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) need not be inserted, and