1. This Order may be cited as the Consumer Credit (Exempt Agreements) (Amendment) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 18th March 1993.

2. The Consumer Credit (Exempt Agreements) Order 1989(2) is hereby amended in Schedule 1-

(a)in Part I, under "FRIENDLY SOCIETIES", by deleting-

(i)the entries-

• "Hazel Grove Provident Burial Society"

• "Hoddesdon Provident and Annuity Society" and

• "Nottingham Permanent Mutual Money Society";

(ii)the entries "City of Glasgow Friendly Society" and "Devon and Exeter Men's Equitable Benefit Society" and substituting therefore, at the appropriate places in alphabetical order, the entries respectively "Scottish Friendly Assurance Society" and "The Exeter Equitable Friendly Society";

(b)in Part III, by making the following insertions after the entry "Abbey Life Residential Loans Limited"-

• "Bradford & Bingley Homeloans Limited"

• "Bradford & Bingley Homeloans Management Limited"

• "Bradford & Bingley Mortgages Limited" and

• "Bradford & Bingley Mortgage Management Limited";

• and

(c)in Part IV, by substituting for the entry "Merchants National Bank & Trust Company of Indianapolis" the entry "National City Bank, Indiana".

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Consumer Credit (Exempt Agreements) Order 1989, insofar as it provides exemption for the purposes of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 of certain consumer credit agreements where the creditor is a body specified in Schedule 1 to that Order, by deleting the names of three bodies from, and amending the names of two bodies in, the list in Part I of that Schedule, by adding the names of four bodies to the list in Part III of that Schedule and by amending the name of one body in the list in Part IV of that Schedule.