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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 31 December 2020 - onwards
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Regulation 18 Civil proceedings

(1) [deleted]

(2) Any contravention by a payment service provider of -

(a) Article 5(3) or 5(8); or

(b) Article 8(1),

in the 2012 Regulation is actionable at the suit (or in Scotland, the instance) of a private person who suffers loss as a result of the contravention, subject to the defences and other incidents applying to actions for breach of statutory duty.

(3) A person acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity may bring an action under paragraph (1) or (2) on behalf of a private person if any remedy -

(a) will be exclusively for the benefit of the private person; and

(b) cannot be obtained by way of an action brought otherwise than at the suit (or in Scotland, the instance) of the fiduciary or representative.

(4) In this regulation "private person" means -