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Consumer Reporting Act

A Consumer Reporting Agency is a private business that creates, maintains and sells information about you to a business that has a right to have access to your file and has paid a fee to the Consumer Reporting Agency. There are two classes of information which may be on your file at a Consumer Reporting Agency. They are credit information and personal information. For more information go to Consumer Reporting Agencies - Your Rights & Their Responsibilities.

Consumer Reporting Agencies and persons acting as a personal information investigator must register pursuant to the Consumer Reporting Act and comply with regulations.

For a list of Consumer Reporting Agencies currently licensed, please click here.

Statute:

The Consumer Reporting Act is available online as a PDF document.

• General Regulations

Forms

Registration, Consumer Reporting Act, Application for

(PDF)