Statutory Instruments
2013 No. 2589
Credit Unions
The Credit Unions (Maximum Interest Rate on Loans) Order 2013
Made
8th October 2013
Laid before Parliament
9th October 2013
Coming into force
1st April 2014
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 11(5) and (7) of the Credit Unions Act 1979( 1 ), make the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Credit Unions (Maximum Interest Rate on Loans) Order 2013 and comes into force on 1st April 2014.
Maximum interest rate
2. The rate specified for the purposes of section 11(5) of the Credit Unions Act 1979 is three per cent per month.
Revocation
3. This Order revokes the Credit Unions (Maximum Interest Rate on Loans) Order 2006( 2 ).
Desmond Swayne
Stephen Crabb
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majestyβs Treasury
9th October 2013
1979 c. 34 ; section 11(7) was amended by S.I. 2001/2617 .