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Thank you for your response to my request under **s.77 Loan or s.78 credit card** for a copy of my agreement, however, what you have sent to me is only the terms and conditions.
The document that you are obliged to send me is a true copy of the executed agreement that contained all of the prescribed terms, all other required terms and statutory notices and was signed by both your company and myself as defined in section 61(1) of CCA 74 and subsequent Statutory Instruments. If the executed agreement contained any reference to any other document, you are also obliged to send me a copy of that document.
I now await your forwarding to me a TRUE copy of my signed agreement which I expect to receive within the next 14 days.
Yours faithfully
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DG
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The "executed agreement" i.e. the document you signed (though they are entitled under regulations not to include the signature, signature box or signature date), and the agreement i.e. the Terms & Conditions are two entirely separate things.
Citi are playing games again - the legislation states "executed agreement":
"78.—(1) The creditor under a regulated agreement for running-account credit, within the prescribed period after receiving a request in writing to that effect from the debtor and payment of a fee of 15 new pence, shall give the debtor a copy of the executed agreement (if any) and of any other document referred to in it, together with a statement signed by or on behalf of the creditor showing, according to the information to which it is practicable for him to refer,—
(a) the state of the account, and
(b) the amount, if any, currently payable under the agreement by the debtor to the creditor, and
(c) the amounts and due dates of any payments which, if the debtor does not draw further on the account,"
Time for a further complaint to the Office Of Fair Trading regarding this.
Citi have not discharged their obligations under the act and request, though obviously they will suggest otherwise.
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2/3 of my post on this thread are applicable to you:
Advice offered by ENRON is without prejudice and is for your judgement as to whether to take it. You should seek the assistance or hire of a solicitor or other paid professional if in doubt.
Under the regulations they are entitled to exclude the signature, signature box, signature date.
Therefore you are entitled to a copy of the "executed agreement" minus these details as listed under s78(1) CCA, or at least an exact copy of it's full text.
What Citi have given you is a copy of the Terms & Conditions which has been titled "agreement" and had your name and address added. Normally T&C so have somewhere in the text that "this is a consumer credit agreement regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974".
However the "executed agreement" and "agreement are not the same thing". Notice how they refer in their accompanying letter to the "agreement", and not "executed agreement".
And as you have pointed out, the T&C belong to a different card to the one you applied for, and would like incur a different rate of interest than the one present on yours.
So, yep, same old Citi shinanigans. I would suggest that they have not discharged their obligations under the act, that you still await a true copy of the "executed agreement" - therefore put Citi on notice, complain once more to the OFT, and enquire with Trading Standards as you are legally entitled to a copy of this document.
You are probably requesting a copy of the "executed agreement" to ascertain whether it includes all the necessary prescribed terms, obviously with this entirely different document you are unable to do so.
Advice offered by ENRON is without prejudice and is for your judgement as to whether to take it. You should seek the assistance or hire of a solicitor or other paid professional if in doubt.
Advice offered by ENRON is without prejudice and is for your judgement as to whether to take it. You should seek the assistance or hire of a solicitor or other paid professional if in doubt.
I have had exactly the same from Citicards..what is the best way to proceed? I will complain to OFT and re-contact Citi to request the correct document..anything else I should be doing at all?