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Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003

Preliminary provisions

8C: Status of examples

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You can use examples in this Act to help understand the rules. They are just illustrations and do not change the rules. If an example does not match the rule it is explaining, the rule is what matters.

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Part 1Preliminary provisions

8CStatus of examples

  1. An example used in this Act is only illustrative of the provision to which it relates. It does not limit the provision.

  2. If an example and the provision to which it relates are inconsistent, the provision prevails.

Notes
  • Section 8C: inserted, on , by section 7 of the Credit Contracts Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 81).