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EW 6: Relationship between financial arrangements and excepted financial arrangements
or “How special financial agreements fit within larger financial arrangements”
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“Changing how you use a personal money agreement”

If you have an agreement about money that you’ve been using for personal reasons, and you stop using it for those personal reasons, this law tells you what happens next.

When you stop using the agreement for personal reasons, two things happen. First, it’s no longer considered a special type of agreement that doesn’t have to follow the usual rules. Second, it becomes a regular financial agreement that does have to follow those rules.

This change happens right away, on the same day you stop using the agreement for personal reasons. The law that explains what counts as these special agreements is in section EW 5(18) to (20).

Remember, this only applies to agreements that were originally for personal use. If you weren’t using the agreement for personal reasons in the first place, this law doesn’t affect you.

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Part E Timing and quantifying rules
Financial arrangements rules

EW 7Change from private or domestic purpose

  1. This section applies when a person who is a party to an excepted financial arrangement described in any of section EW 5(18) to (20) stops using it for a private or a domestic purpose.

  2. On and after the date on which the person stops using the excepted financial arrangement for a private or a domestic purpose,—

  3. it ceases to be an excepted financial arrangement for the person; and
    1. the person becomes a party to a financial arrangement.

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