Providers will need to hold a consumer credit licence to provide consumers protection against mis-selling.

He acknowledged, for example, that there were few complaints about laundries, but said the licensing gave consumers protection that would otherwise not exist.

Indeed, the traditional banking system offers consumers protections against fraud that are hard to replicate in any system without intermediaries.

Distance Selling Regulations - gives consumers protection when they buy goods or services by mail order, phone or online.

She proposed legislation making the prevention of youth suicide a state priority as well as a bill that provides consumers protection from predatory lending practices.

Moreover, Ms. Rand said, "they will have a big advantage because the California law is very broad, a kind of super consumers protection law."

Finally, in my opinion, joint and several liability is really needed in order to develop the internal market and afford consumers protection when new products are placed on the market.

There's quite a lot of rules and regulations, some of those date back years, they could probably do with a look at, but if they're sensible and giving consumers protection, it's cost effective just to keep them.

The Telephone Consumers Protection Act of 1991 prohibits automated ads to residential phones without prior consent, but allows blast voice mail for institutional investors, schools, and emergency services, and compelling people to Christ.

According to a report from the Indonesian Consumers Protection Foundation in 2011, the most common complaint from passengers about the service offered by Transjakarta was the lengthy waiting time for buses at some of the main shelters.

The Federal Insecticide Act of 1910 set standards for chemical quality and provided consumers protection but did not address the growing issue of potential environmental damage and biological health risks associated with such widespread use of insecticides.

"The bill affords consumers protection so they can shop and compare leases, something that is almost impossible now," said Ronald S. Loshin, a lobbyist who represents Detroit's big three manufacturers and several Japanese car companies on the leasing issue.

From 1999 to 2001, Korolec was an advisor to the Government's Plenipotentiary for Poland's EU Accession Negotiations, responsible for the fields of competition policy, free movement of goods and persons, agriculture and consumers protection.

The Russian Consumers' Rights Inspection - the federal consumers protection agency - intends to establish norms, standards and principles for health food by as early as the end of this summer, giving manufacturers and consumers the necessary guidelines to help strengthen trust in "healthy" products.