Regulation 76 Framework Contract
The European Union (Payment Services) Regulations 2018.
Regulation 76 Framework Contract
The European Union (Payment Services) Regulations 2018
Regulation 76 Information
This is your ‘Framework Contract’ with us which contains information specified under Regulation 76 of the Regulations
to be given to you in relation to the particular account referenced below. It is in addition to any other terms and
conditions as may comprise or form part of your Framework Contract with us and are applicable to such account (and/or
any payments made or applied on such account) as we may advise you of from time to time.
This document relates to the Credit Union’s provision of payment services excluding current accounts, the terms of
which are separate and available on the Credit Union’s website.
Mulcair Credit Union Ltd is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.
Contact details for the Central Bank
Address: New Wapping Street, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1
Telephone: +353 1 224 6000
Fax: +353 1 671 6550
Website: www.centralbank.ie
Contact details for the Credit Union
Address: Mulcair Credit Union Ltd, Cork Road, Newport, Co Tipperary
Telephone: 061 378 099
Address: Mulcair Credit Union Ltd, Murroe, Co Tipperary
Telephone: 061 386 022
Email: info@mulcaircu.ie
Website: www.mulcaircu.ie
Registered Number: C13937
Opening hours
Newport
- Tue: 9.30am – 5.00pm
- Wed: 10.00am – 5.00pm
- Thurs: 9.30am – 5.00pm
- Fri: 9.30am – 5.00pm
- Sat: 10.00am – 1.00pm
Murroe
- Fri: 10.00am – 4.00pm
Each of the above other than Saturday or a public holiday in Ireland is a “Business Day” for the purposes of this
Framework Contract.
Your account
The following is a description of the main characteristics of the payment services on your credit union account:
This credit union offers accounts to its members with the following capabilities:
- Lodging and withdrawing funds
- Transferring funds internally to other accounts
- Acceptance of inward payments by debit card over the telephone
- Acceptance of inward payments by standing order or direct credit
- Direct debits outwards
- Online banking via PC or mobile phone, including view access, intra-credit union account transfer, SEPA transfers to
other payment institutions and payee management.
Giving an order for payment from your account
When you give us an order to make a payment from your account, we will need you to provide us with the details of
the beneficiary of the payment (i.e. their IBAN, together with any relevant identification details for the payment
service provider (‘PSP’) with which they hold their account). Depending on how you place your order with us (i.e.
online, in our offices, by telephone etc) we may also need you to verify that order by signature, by use of a
password, or by use of a PIN, depending on the type of account that you hold. All of this information, taken
together, is known as the ‘unique identifier’ that you must give us. In giving us that unique identifier, you will
be consenting to our execution of that order for you. You cannot withdraw that consent after you have given it to us.
SEPA Instant Credit Transfers (SCT Inst)
Credit Union now offers SEPA Instant Credit Transfers (SCT Inst), allowing members to make euro-denominated payments
within 10 seconds across SEPA-participating financial institutions. These transactions can be executed 24/7/365,
including weekends and holidays. To use SEPA Instant, members must provide the recipient’s IBAN and confirm
transaction authorisation through online channels or in-office verification.
We will notify you when an outgoing SEPA Instant Credit Transfer has been processed, indicating whether or not it was
successful. If we do not receive confirmation within 10 seconds that the payment was successful, we will restore your
account to the state it would have been in had the transaction not taken place. If we subsequently receive
confirmation that the transaction was actually successful, and the payment has been made, we reserve the right to
debit your account and make any other necessary adjustments.
Cut-off times
When we are given an order in relation to a payment on your account, we must be given that order before 12.30pm on
any business day for all electronic payment types. If we are given that order after that time, we will be deemed to
have received that order on our next following business day. If we agree with you that an order is to be executed on
a particular business day, then we will be deemed to have received that order on that particular business day.
While standard SEPA credit transfers must be initiated before 12:30pm on a business day for same-day processing, SEPA
Instant credit transfers do not have cut-off times and are processed immediately.
Execution times
Once we are deemed to have received an order under “Cut-off times” above, we have up to the end of the first Business
Day following the date of deemed receipt to credit that amount. If the order is initiated by paper, we will have an
extra Business Day to do this.
- Standard SEPA Credit Transfer: Funds are credited to the beneficiary’s PSP by the end of the next business day.
- SEPA Instant Credit Transfer: Transactions are completed within 10 seconds, ensuring real-time payment availability.
Spending limits and payment instruments
If we give you a payment instrument on your account (i.e. use of online channels with a password, fund transfer and
bill pay etc) you may separately agree spending limits with us for use of a particular payment instrument.
If we give you such a payment instrument for your account, you must, as soon as you receive it, take all reasonable
steps to keep its personalised security features safe. If the payment instrument is lost, stolen, misappropriated or
used in an unauthorised manner, you should notify the Credit Union immediately at +(353) 61 378 099 during office
hours.
We reserve the right to block your use of a payment instrument for any of the following reasons:
- The security of the payment instrument;
- If we suspect that it is, or has been, used in an unauthorised or fraudulent manner;
- If the payment instrument is connected with the provision by us of credit to you, a significantly increased risk
that you may be unable to fulfil your obligations to pay; and - Our national or community obligations.
If we block your use of a payment instrument, we will tell you about it (and the reasons for it) when you contact the
credit union reporting your PIN lost or stolen unless giving you that information would compromise our security or
would be prohibited by law.
Subject to any other applicable limits, you can set your own personal transaction limit for SEPA Instant credit
transfers through online channels or in-office service requests. If you give us an order for a SEPA Instant credit
transfer that exceeds the limit set by you it will be rejected. Any SEPA Instant credit transfer transaction limit
set by you can be changed at any time through online channels or in-office service requests.
Charges
The credit union does not currently levy charges on any of the accounts that we offer.
Interest rates
If an interest rate applies to your account, you are told this when you open your account and that interest rate is
incorporated by reference into this Framework 76 information. You can obtain confirmation of that interest rate by
contacting us as set out above.
Exchange rates
If any payment on your account (including a withdrawal by you from your account) involves a currency conversion
being made by us, we will use a reference exchange rate that is determined by FEXCO international payments. The
reference exchange rate will change daily (please ask for the current exchange rate at the time of the transaction)
and this is the basis on which we will calculate the actual exchange rate. On the date on which we effect the
currency conversion, we will take the reference exchange rate that applies on that date and add a fixed amount of 1%
commission and the total will be equal to the actual exchange rate that is used by us in the currency conversion plus
1% commission. You can find out the daily changes to the reference exchange rate by contacting us as set out above.
SEPA Instant transactions are processed in EUR only. If a cross-currency transfer is required, it will be processed
using standard SEPA credit transfer rules, subject to applicable exchange rates and conversion times.
Giving you information
If we need to give you information or notice of any matters relating to this Framework 76 Information, we will do so
by placing a notice in writing in any credit union office, on our website and included in the Annual General Meeting
Booklet unless we state otherwise herein. Such information or notice will be given to you promptly upon the
requirement to do so arising.
Framework 76 Information (copy)
For as long as you hold any account with us, you have the right to receive, at any time and on request by you, a copy
of this Framework 76 information on paper or, if possible, by secure email.
Payment errors and unauthorised transactions
If money is paid into or out of your account in error, you agree to let us reverse the payment and to correct the
entries in your account. If we do this, we do not have to contact you to tell you beforehand.
In certain circumstances we may request your authority to recover a misdirected payment which has been credited to
your account. If your authority is not forthcoming, we will provide such of your details as may be required to the
relevant payer in order to assist their recovery of the misdirected payment(s). If there are insufficient funds in
your account, then you will still be responsible for the payment of this amount, to include any costs or expenses we
incur.
Where any adjustment has been made to your account through no fault of ours, you may have to pay us any charges
associated with doing this and we may take any amount you owe us from your account.
If you become aware of a transaction on your account that is unauthorised or incorrectly executed, you must tell us
without undue delay and, in any event, within thirteen months of that transaction being debited from your account.
You will be entitled to rectification from us if that transaction was unauthorised or incorrectly executed. If the
transaction was unauthorised, we will refund the amount of it to you and, if necessary, restore your account to the
state that it would have been in if the unauthorised transaction had not taken place, provided that:
- You will bear the loss of an unauthorised transaction on your account, up to a total of €50, if the unauthorised
transaction resulted from (a) the use of a lost or stolen payment instrument, unless the loss or theft of the
payment instrument was undetectable by you, or (b) your failure to keep the personalised security features of that
payment instrument safe; - You will bear all losses relating to an unauthorised transaction on your account if you incurred those losses by
acting fraudulently or by failing, intentionally or with a gross lack of reasonable care, to keep the payment
instrument and its security features safe, to use it in accordance with any terms that we tell you are applicable
to it, and to notify us promptly of it being lost, stolen, misappropriated or used in an unauthorised manner; - So long as you have not acted fraudulently you will not bear any financial consequences resulting from the use of a
lost, stolen or misappropriated payment instrument once you have notified us in accordance with this Regulation 76
Information that it has been lost, stolen or misappropriated.
Refunds of direct debits
If a direct debit is taken from your account but:
- your direct debit authorisation did not specify the exact amount of the payment; and
- the amount of the payment exceeded the amount you could reasonably have expected taking into account your previous
spending patterns, this Framework 76 Information and other relevant circumstances; and - you give us such factual information as we may require; and
- you did not give us consent in advance to the direct debit being taken from your account; and
- neither we nor the beneficiary of the direct debit made information available to you about the transaction at least
four weeks before the debit date,
then you may request a refund from us of that direct debit. We will then have ten Business Days to refund you or give
you reasons for our refusal to refund you and that your right to refer the matter to the Financial Services &
Pensions Ombudsman.
You may also request a refund for any direct debit payment for any reason for an eight-week period following the debit date.
Unique identifier
To process a SEPA Credit Transfer or SEPA Instant Credit Transfer, you must provide the recipient’s International Bank
Account Number (IBAN). This is the unique identifier required to ensure the correct execution of the payment. If an
incorrect IBAN is provided, the transaction may be rejected or misdirected, and recovery efforts will follow standard
non-execution procedures.
If you give us an order to make a payment from your account and we execute it in accordance with the unique
identifier (IBAN) provided by you, we will be taken to have executed it correctly as regards the beneficiary of that
order. If you give us an incorrect unique identifier, we will not be liable for the non-execution, or defective
execution, of the order. We will, however, make reasonable efforts to recover the funds involved.
Our liability if you make a payment out of your account
If you give us an order to make a payment from your account, we are liable to you for its correct execution unless we
can prove to you (and if necessary to the beneficiary’s PSP) that the beneficiary’s PSP received the payment. If we
are so liable to you for a defective or incorrectly executed order, we will refund the amount of it to you and, if
applicable, restore your account to the state that it would have been in if the defective or incorrect transaction
had not taken place. Irrespective of whether we are liable to you or not in these circumstances, we will try to trace
the transaction and notify you of the outcome.
Our liability if you receive a payment into your account
If the payer’s PSP can prove that we received the payment for you, then we will be liable to you. If we are liable to
you, we will immediately place the amount of the transaction at your disposal and credit the amount to your account.
If you have arranged for a direct debit to be paid into your account, we will be liable to transmit that order to
the payer’s PSP. We will ensure that the amount of the transaction is at your disposal immediately after it is
credited to our account.
If we are not liable as set out above, the payer’s PSP will be liable to the payer for the transaction. Regardless of
whether we are liable or not, we will immediately try to trace the transaction and notify you of the outcome.
If a SEPA Instant Credit Transfer is received into a member’s account, the Credit Union will ensure that funds are
immediately credited and available for use, in accordance with EU Regulation 2021/1230. If there are any delays due
to system outages or security checks, the Credit Union will notify the affected member immediately.
Security and fraud prevention measures
Due to the irreversible nature of SEPA Instant Credit Transfers, Mulcair Credit Union has implemented enhanced fraud
detection and monitoring measures. Members are encouraged to verify recipient details before initiating a SEPA Instant
Credit Transfer, as unauthorised transactions may not be recoverable.
When making a SEPA Credit Transfer or SEPA Instant Credit Transfer you may be asked to verify the unique identifier
and beneficiary details provided. This is known as Verification of Payee, and it is important that you check the
response provided by the PSP of the beneficiary. If you tell us to proceed with a payment following the Verification
of Payee response, we will rely on the details provided by you and will have no liability to you if the details
provided were incorrect.
If the Verification of Payee service is not available when it should be or if it incorrectly indicates a match
resulting in the incorrect execution of the transaction, we will refund you and restore your account to the state it
would have been in if the transaction not taken place.
For further details regarding SEPA Instant Credit Transfers and compliance with PSD2 and SEPA Scheme Rules, members
can contact our support team or visit the Credit Union’s website.
Duration, changes and termination
Your contract with us, as detailed in this Framework 76 Information, is of indefinite duration.
If we want to change any part of this Framework 76 Information, we will give you at least two months’ written notice
of the proposed change where required by law to do so. If we change our Business Days of opening, we will give you
one month’s written notice. If you do not notify us within that two-month period that you do not accept the proposed
change, you will be deemed to have accepted it. If you do not want to accept the proposed change, you must notify us
in writing, and you will be allowed to change your contract with us in relation to the account to which this
Framework 76 Information relates immediately and without charge before the end of that two-month period. If we change
an interest rate or an exchange rate in a way that is more favourable to you, we have the right to apply that change
immediately and write to you soon afterwards confirming that change.
There are certain circumstances where we may give shorter notice than two months or where we will not tell you about
the changes or tell you about the changes after we make them. This may happen where:
- The change is in your favour (e.g. where we reduce fees and charges on your account or change an interest or exchange rate in your favour);
- The change is required by law or regulation by a particular date, and there is not enough time to give you the usual notice;
- The change is to introduce a new product or service that you can use in relation to your account;
- The change has no impact on the operation of your account (for example, we make a change to a term we use to describe something in this agreement); or
- The change relates to certain benefits that may apply to your account that are subject to eligibility or exchange rate agreed in this framework contract.
We can change an exchange rate immediately and without notice if that change is based upon the reference exchange rate agreed in this Framework 76 Information.
You may terminate your contract with us in relation to the account to which this Framework 76 Information relates on
one month’s notice in writing. We may terminate our contract with you in relation to the account to which this
Framework 76 Information relates on giving you two months’ notice in writing.
Governing law and language
This Framework 76 Information shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Ireland, and all
communication between us and you during our contractual relationship shall be conducted in English.
Redress
If you have a complaint in relation to the matters governed by the Framework Contract, you can write to us and we
will deal with your complaint in accordance with our obligations under the Regulations referenced at the top of this
notice.
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of the internal process, you may refer your complaint to the Financial
Services and Pensions Ombudsman, 3rd Floor, Lincoln House, Lincoln Place, Dublin 2 D02 VH29, tel. (01) 567 7000,
e-mail: info@fspo.ie.
Consent
By maintaining and/or carrying out transactions on this account, you explicitly consent to us accessing, processing
and retaining personal data necessary for the provision of these payment services.
Data protection
We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. Our privacy notices describe how we
collect and use personal data about you during and after your relationship with us. They also set out your rights in
respect of your personal data. (Our Privacy Notices are available on our website or by request from our office.)
Mulcair Credit Union Ltd is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.

