Victorian Current Acts

CREDIT (COMMONWEALTH POWERS) ACT 2010 - SECT 3

In this Act—

"adoption" means the adoption under section 4(1);

"amendment reference "means the reference under section 6(1) ;

"Commonwealth Credit instrument "means any instrument (whether or not of a legislative character) that is made or issued under the National Credit legislation;

"express amendment "of the National Credit legislation means the direct amendment of the text of the National Credit legislation (whether by the insertion, omission, repeal, substitution or relocation of words or matter) by another Commonwealth Act or by an instrument under a Commonwealth Act, but does not include the enactment by a Commonwealth Act of a provision that has or will have substantive effect otherwise than as part of the text of the National Credit legislation;

"National Credit legislation" means—

        (a)     the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 of the Commonwealth; and

        (b)     the National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2009 of the Commonwealth—

as in force from time to time;

"referred credit matter "means a matter relating to either of the following—

        (a)     credit, being credit the provision of which would be covered by the expression "provision of credit to which this Code applies" in the relevant version of the National Credit Code;

        (b)     consumer leases, being consumer leases each of which would be covered by the expression "consumer lease to which Part 11 applies" in the relevant version of the National Credit Code;

relevant version of the National Credit Code means the text of Schedule 1 to the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 of the Commonwealth as originally enacted, and as later amended by the National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment Act 2010 of the Commonwealth;

"relevant version of the National Credit legislation" means—

        (a)     the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 of the Commonwealth as originally enacted, and as later amended by the National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment Act 2010 of the Commonwealth; and

        (b)     the National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2009 of the Commonwealth.