Clause 16 - Time orders
Consumer Credit Bill
2:30 pm
James Brokenshire (Hornchurch, Conservative)
May I amplify that point? It is common in some legal agreements to include a deemed notice clause specifying that the person, be it the borrower or the other counter-party, will be deemed to have received a notice so many days after it is posted. We are concerned about the need for certainty in all of this, so that the provisions cannot be used against someone who is already in difficult financial straits. They might then find out that something else is labelled on them. Will my hon. Friend comment on that?