§ Businesses needing a licence
§ 5.—(1) Section 21 does not apply to the carrying on of any description of consumer credit business or consumer hire business before the day appointed for the purposes of this paragraph in relation to a business of that description.
§ (2) Where the person carrying an any description of consumer credit business or consumer hire business applies for a licence before the day appointed for the purposes of this paragraph in relation to a business of that description, he shall be deemed to have been granted on that day a licence covering that business and continuing in force until the licence applied for is granted or, if the application is refused, until the end of the appeal period.
§ The register
§ 6. Sections 35 and 36 come into operation on the day appointed for the purposes of this paragraph.
§ Enforcement of agreements made by unlicensed trader
§ 7. Section 40 does not apply to a regulated agreement made in the course of any business before the day appointed for the purposes of paragraph 5 in relation to a business of that description.