The Select Committee on Enterprise and Economic Strategy has considered the Consumer Credit Bill, 1994 and has made amendments thereto. It has amended the Title to read as follows:
An Act to revise and extend the law relating to consumer credit, hire-purchase, hiring and moneylending and to enable effect to be given to Council Directive No. 87/102/EEC of 22 December, 1986 as amended by Council Directive No. 90/88/EEC of 22 February, 1990 and for those purposes to repeal the Hire-Purchase Acts, 1946 to 1980, and the Moneylenders Acts, 1900 to 1989, and to repeal and amend certain provisions of the Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Act, 1980 to provide that the Director of Consumer Affairs shall monitor all customer charges by credit institutions and for that purpose to repeal section 28 of the Central Bank Act, 1989, to provide for the amendment and extension of the Pawnbrokers Act, 1964, and to provide for connected matters.
The Bill, as amended, is reported to the Dáil.
