114Interpretation of Part 8

114 Interpretation of Part 8 file means any repository or record in which information relating to any person is recorded or retained, in any manner or form, by a reporting agency. premises includes land. prescribed benefit means: (a) a benefit of a commercial nature; or (b) a benefit in or affecting employment; or (c) a lease of premises or a licence conferring a right to occupy premises. prescribed report means a communication made to a trader by a reporting agency or another trader of information relating to a person, not being a communication made with the knowledge of, and of information known to, that person. reporting agency means a person who carries on the business of providing information relating to other persons.

Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading Act 1990 39 trader means a person who, in the course of a business, supplies or offers to supply goods or services, or sells or lets or offers to sell or let premises. (2) For this Part, where a prescribed report consists of a communication by electronic or mechanical means (except by telephone or other means of voice transmission) the report shall be regarded as being written.