Central Credit Register: Verification Amendments

A statutory instrument published in the Official Gazette on 30 August 2019 – the Credit Reporting Act 2013 (Section 20) (Verification of Identity of Credit Information Subjects) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 433/2019) - has simplified the identity verification process for lenders subject to the credit reporting regime.

Lenders and other “credit information providers” (“CIPs”) subject to the Credit Reporting Act 2013 are required to verify the identity of borrowers and other credit information subjects (“CISs”). The verification steps that CIPs are required to take are set out in S.I. 488/2016 (the “Section 20 Regulations”). The new S.I. amends the Section 20 regulations.