Sentences with phrase «criminal usury laws»

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The Criminal Code was amended in 2006 to allow payday lenders under provincial regulation rather than under the usury laws of the Criminal Code.

New York State laws define interest rates exceeding 16 % as civil usury and those topping 25 % as criminal usury.

Jonathon Bishop: I would tell the federal government essentially to repeal the exemption that's sitting there right now in the criminal code for the usury law.

I know we touched on it on the first show we did but when you say the federal usury law, the rates set in the criminal code is 60 % so I can not give someone a loan and charge them a 70 % interest rate.

There is an apparent «gap» between usury laws embedded in federal Criminal Code legislation and existing consumer protection laws, both federal and provincial.

Bowen dismissed one count accusing Oasis of usury under the penal code, agreeing with the defendants that it was a criminal statute and so there was no private right of action under the law.