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Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2021
- Sponsor
- Minister for Finance
- Introduced
- 23 Jun 2021
- Last updated
- 11 Sep 2024
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Extends Central Bank authorization requirements to firms providing hire-purchase, consumer-hire, and indirect credit, plus firms servicing these agreements.
- Caps interest rates on credit and hire-purchase agreements at 23 percent; courts may enforce non-compliant agreements only in limited circumstances.
- Requires annual percentage rate disclosure in hire-purchase agreements; enables Central Bank to collect and publish credit agreement statistics.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage33rd Dáil23 Jun 2021
- Second Stage33rd Dáil8 Jul 2021
- Committee Stage33rd Dáil30 Sep 2021
- Report Stage33rd Dáil23 Feb 2022
- Fifth Stage33rd Dáil9 Mar 2022
- Second Stage26th Seanad9 Mar 2022
- Committee Stage26th Seanad24 Mar 2022
- Report Stage26th Seanad31 Mar 2022
- Fifth Stage26th Seanad31 Mar 2022
- Enacted11 Apr 2022
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