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Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003

Enforcement and remedies - Offences

105C: Issue of infringement notice

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"Getting a notice for breaking consumer finance laws"

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The Commission can give you an infringement notice if they think you are breaking the law. They can cancel the notice before you pay the fee or before a court orders you to pay a fine under section 21 of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957. The Commission cancels the notice by sending you a written note saying it is cancelled.

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Part 4Enforcement and remedies
Offences

105CIssue of infringement notice

  1. The Commission may issue an infringement notice to a person if the Commission believes on reasonable grounds that the person is committing, or has committed, an infringement offence.

  2. The Commission may revoke an infringement notice before the infringement fee is paid, or before an order for payment of a fine is made or deemed to be made by a court under section 21 of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957.

  3. An infringement notice is revoked by giving written notice to the person to whom it was issued that the notice is revoked.

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Notes
  • Section 105C: inserted, on , by section 70 of the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 33).