New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CREDIT ACT 1984 - SECT 36

36 Disclosure in loan contracts

(1) A loan contract shall include:

(a) the date on which the contract, or an offer to enter into the contract, was signed by the debtor,

(b) a statement of the amount financed in accordance with Schedule 4,

(c) a statement of the credit charge in accordance with Schedule 5,

(d) where, at the relevant date, it is possible to express the whole of the credit charge as an amount of money, a statement of the total of:

(i) the credit charge, and

(ii) the amount financed,

(e) a statement of the annual percentage rate in accordance with section 38,

(f) a statement of the person to whom and the place at which payments by the debtor are to be made,

(g) a statement whether payments are to be made by instalments and if they are to be so made, a statement of such of the following as are known or can be calculated at the relevant date:

(i) where each instalment is the same amount, that amount,

(ii) where each instalment except the last is the same amount, that amount and the amount of the last instalment,

(iii) where neither subparagraph (i) nor subparagraph (ii) applies, the amount of each instalment,

(iv) the number of instalments, and

(v) the time for the payment of each instalment or the time for the payment of the first instalment and the interval between each instalment and the subsequent instalment,

(h) if a commission charge is payable, a statement to that effect and, except in so far as the information is not known by the credit provider or is not readily available to the credit provider, a statement of the person to whom and the person by whom the commission charge is payable, and

(i) a statement whether any mortgage relating to the contract has been or is agreed to be entered into.

(2) A credit provider shall not include in the amount financed under a loan contract:

(a) an amount payable by the debtor to the credit provider in respect of a risk under a contract of insurance other than a risk specified in clause 1 (b) of Schedule 4,

(b) where a mortgage relating to the contract has been entered into, an amount in respect of insurance against loss of the security interest of the mortgagee in any goods subject to the mortgage by reason of any act exceeding an amount calculated by applying the prescribed rate for title insurance in relation to goods of that class, or

(c) an amount in respect of the discharge of the liability of the debtor to the credit provider under a regulated contract that exceeds the amount of the net balance due to the credit provider calculated in accordance with section 103 immediately before the discharge of the liability.

(3) Nothing in this section requires the inclusion in a loan contract of a statement referred to in this section that is not applicable to the contract.

(4) In this section, "relevant date" means the date on which the loan contract is entered into or, if the loan contract is entered into by the acceptance by the credit provider of an offer made by the debtor, the date on which the offer is made.