Undisclosed broker commissions

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Please correct, or advise me if I am wrong, but am I right in thinking that a
12k credit agreement, taken out in December 2005 to buy a car, should, in accordance with the Consumer Credit Act, contain details of the commissions paid to the broker?
If this information has been overlooked, and is not contained in the agreement, is the agreement in breach of the act, and therefore has the law been broken, rendering the agreement illegal and therefore unenforceable?
It would be helpful to know the relevant paragraph reference in the CCA.

Thankyou to anyone able to assist.

Paul Courbot.
 

Tony

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Section 127 - Consumer Credit Act 2006

Part of this was removed by the 2006 Act:

Saving relating to repeal of section 127(3) to (5) of the 1974 Act (enforcement orders relating to improperly executed agreements)
But due to the age of the agreement it still applies and the agreement may be unenforceable, but you would need to get proper advice on this.

127.
Enforcement orders in cases of infringement.
— (1) In the case of an application for an enforcement order under—
(a)
section 65(1)(improperly executed agreements), or
(b)
section 105(7)(a) or (b)(improperly executed security instruments), or
(c)
section 111(2)(failure to serve copy of notice on surety), or
(d)
section 124(1) or (2)(taking of negotiable instrument in contravention of section 123),
the court shall dismiss the application if, but (subject to subsections (3) and (4)) only if, it considers it just to do so having regard to—
(i) prejudice caused to any person by the contravention in question, and the degree of culpability for it; and
(ii) the powers conferred on the court by subsection (2) and sections 135 and 136.
(2) If it appears to the court just to do so, it may in an enforcement order reduce or discharge any sum payable by the debtor or hirer, or any surety, so as to compensate him for prejudice suffered as a result of the contravention in question.
(3) The court shall not make an enforcement order under section 65(1) if section 61(1)(a)(signing of agreements) was not complied with unless a document (whether or not in the prescribed form and complying with regulations under section 60(1)) itself containing all the prescribed terms of the agreement was signed by the debtor or hirer (whether or not in the prescribed manner).
(4) The court shall not make an enforcement order under section 65(1) in the case of a cancellable agreement if—
(a)
a provision of section 62 or 63 was not complied with, and the creditor or owner did not give a copy of the executed agreement, and of any other document referred to in it, to the debtor or hirer before the commencement of the proceedings in which the order is sought, or
(b)
section 64(1) was not complied with.
(5) Where an enforcement order is made in a case to which subsection (3) applies, the order may direct that the regulated agreement is to have effect as if it did not include a term omitted from the document signed by the debtor or hirer.
Consumer Credit Act 1974 (c. 39) - Statute Law Database
 
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Tony

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Financial Services (Distance marketing) Regulations 2004

After all that the commission payable is a requirement of the Financial Services (Distance marketing) Regulations 2004 not the CCA. It would be for the OFT to take action and possibly fine the intermediary and it wouldn't make the agreement unenforceable.

The total price to be paid by the consumer to the supplier for the financial service, including all related fees, charges and expenses, and all taxes paid via the supplier or, where an exact price cannot be indicated, the basis for the calculation of the price enabling the consumer to verify it.
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