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Sources and review dates

MotorComp’s guidance and deadline rules are grounded in these primary sources. “Reviewed” is when MotorComp last checked the source, not when the publisher last updated it. Recheck before relying on any of it.

SourcePart usedReviewed
Consumer Rights Act 2015, section 9

Contextual satisfactory quality; price, description, safety, durability and disclosure/examination qualifications.

Limitations: UK extent. Latest available revised text; site warns that unapplied/future effects may exist. Not a full amendments audit.

s9(1)–(4)16 Oct 2026
Consumer Rights Act 2015, section 19

Six-month delivery presumption covers specified repair/final-remedy limbs, not short-term rejection; rebuttal and incompatibility exceptions; no automatic rejection.

Limitations: UK extent. Latest available revised text; site warns that unapplied/future effects may exist. Not a full amendments audit.

s19(3), (9)–(15)16 Oct 2026
Consumer Rights Act 2015, section 20

Clear rejection communication; collection/return; price actually paid under HP; refund timing, means and fees; severable-contract caveat.

Limitations: UK extent. Latest available revised text; site warns that unapplied/future effects may exist. Not a full amendments audit.

s20(5)–(17), (20)–(21)16 Oct 2026
Consumer Rights Act 2015, section 22

30-day start conditions; inclusive waiting period; conditional seven-day minimum after failed repair; agreed extensions.

Limitations: UK extent. Latest available revised text; site warns that unapplied/future effects may exist. Not a full amendments audit.

s22(1)–(8)16 Oct 2026
Consumer Rights Act 2015, section 23

Repair/replacement costs, proportionality, reasonable time and agreed-repair constraints; no fixed repair deadline.

Limitations: UK extent. Latest available revised text; site warns that unapplied/future effects may exist. Not a full amendments audit.

s23(2)–(7)16 Oct 2026
Consumer Rights Act 2015, section 24

Final-remedy gateways, completed attempt, motor-vehicle deduction-for-use exception, missed-collection exclusion.

Limitations: UK extent. Latest available revised text; site warns that unapplied/future effects may exist. Not a full amendments audit.

s24(5)–(13)16 Oct 2026
Consumer Credit Act 1974, section 75

Linked-credit like claim and excluded cash-price bands; do not treat every personal loan as HP or s75.

Limitations: Other debtor-creditor-supplier and agreement conditions apply; outside first journey.

s75(1), (3)16 Oct 2026
FOS: Car finance (consumer guidance)

Supplier role under the specified finance arrangements; complaint route.

Limitations: Read agreement-specific context; not a statement about every personal loan or a guaranteed outcome.

What we look at; How to complain16 Oct 2026
FOS: Car finance (business guidance)

HP/conditional-sale supplier responsibility; consumer contracts from 1 October 2015; evidence; repair/replacement/price reduction/rejection; contextual redress.

Limitations: Guidance describes approach, not binding precedent or automatic awards.

What we look at: faulty/satisfactory quality; Putting things right: Faulty cars16 Oct 2026
FOS: How to complain — AI guidelines

User voice, factual plain drafting, careful checking, privacy caution, direct free FOS route.

Limitations: AI may introduce inaccurate/irrelevant legal arguments and delay a complaint.

Step 3: Bring your complaint to us16 Oct 2026
FCA Handbook DISP 1.6: Complaints time limit rules

Ordinary respondent receipt clock; final or prescribed delay response; separate payment-service rules.

Limitations: Page displayed as of 16 October 2026, updated 1 June 2026; future versions are not applied.

DISP 1.6.1R, 1.6.2R; distinguish 1.6.2AR16 Oct 2026
FCA Handbook DISP 2.8: Referral time limits

Early final response/summary resolution or eight weeks; six-month sent-date rule; six-year/three-year limb; exceptions and consent.

Limitations: Ordinary route only; scheme and other special provisions can modify outcome. Qualifying response and constructive awareness need review.

DISP 2.8.1R, 2.8.2R, 2.8.3G, 2.8.4G16 Oct 2026
FCA: Motor finance scheme partially suspended

Do not apply commission-scheme suspension to all car-quality complaints; mixed/scheme cases need current specialist review.

Limitations: Volatile current statement, not a calculator for commission claims. Do not hard-code scheme deadlines from this POC.

Advice for firms; Advice for consumers16 Oct 2026
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, section 19

General prohibition subject to authorisation/exemption.

Limitations: Read with RAO specified activities and exclusions; no MotorComp-specific determination.

s19(1)16 Oct 2026
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, section 22

Claims-management specified activities require business/territorial analysis.

Limitations: Read with RAO specified activities and exclusions; no MotorComp-specific determination.

s22(1B)16 Oct 2026
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, section 419A

Broad services and claim definition includes regulatory schemes, repayment and other relief, not just litigation.

Limitations: Read with RAO specified activities and exclusions; no MotorComp-specific determination.

s419A(1)–(3)16 Oct 2026
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001, article 89F

Definitions of financial claim, investigation, representation and GB provider/claimant connection.

Limitations: Current revised provision; no finding that an exclusion applies to MotorComp.

art89F(2)(d), (i)–(j), (3)–(4)16 Oct 2026
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001, article 89G

Seeking out, referring and identifying specified claims/claimants, including financial claims.

Limitations: Current revised provision; no finding that an exclusion applies to MotorComp.

art89G(1)–(2)16 Oct 2026
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001, article 89I

Financial-services/product claim advice, investigation and representation are specified activities.

Limitations: Current revised provision; no finding that an exclusion applies to MotorComp.

art89I(a)–(c)16 Oct 2026
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001, article 89N

Conditional legal-practitioner exclusion; professional review of a product alone does not establish it.

Limitations: Current revised provision; no finding that an exclusion applies to MotorComp.

art89N(1)–(5)16 Oct 2026
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001, article 89O

Conditional entity exclusion; free commercial POC is not automatically a qualifying entity.

Limitations: Current revised provision; no finding that an exclusion applies to MotorComp.

art89O(1)–(4)16 Oct 2026
FCA PERG: regulated claims management activity

Advice includes merits, procedure, presentation and challenging outcomes; investigation and representation definitions.

Limitations: PDF extraction has column/page ordering artefacts and may include future unrelated content. CMC propositions corroborated by RAO89F/G/I and FCA regulation page; not an audit of the whole PDF.

PERG 2.7.20M–N, in particular 2.7.20N(3)–(5)16 Oct 2026
FCA PERG 2.4A: Link with Great Britain

GB provider or claimant connection; Northern Ireland is not an automatic exemption.

Limitations: Example quoted is a regulated-activity example where carried on by way of business without exemption/exclusion.

PERG 2.4A.1–416 Oct 2026
FCA: Claims management companies — our regulation

Separate lead-generation and sector advice/investigation/representation permissions; permissions and actual activities must match.

Limitations: Page includes historical transition text. Do not reuse old 2019 application windows; current page last updated 3 December 2025.

Who needs to be authorised16 Oct 2026

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