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National Credit Act, 2005 (Act No. 34 of 2005)Chapter 4 : Consumer Credit PolicyPart D : Over-indebtedness and reckless credit88. Effect of debt review or re-arrangement order or agreement |
| (1) | A consumer who has filed an application in terms of section 86(1), or who has alleged in court that the consumer is over-indebted, must not incur any further charges under a credit facility or enter into any further credit agreement, other than a consolidation agreement, with any credit provider until one of the following events has occurred: |
| (a) | The debt counsellor rejects the application and the prescribed time period for direct filing in terms of section 86(9) has expired without the consumer having so applied; |
| (b) | the court has determined that the consumer is not over-indebted, or has rejected a debt counsellor’s proposal or the consumer’s application; or |
| (c) | a court having made an order or the consumer and credit providers having made an agreement re-arranging the consumer’s obligations, all the consumer’s obligations under the credit agreements as re-arranged are fulfilled, unless the consumer fulfilled the obligations by way of a consolidation agreement. |
| (2) | If a consumer fulfils obligations by way of a consolidation agreement as contemplated in subsection 1(c), or this subsection, the effect of subsection (1) continues until the consumer fulfils all the obligations under the consolidation agreement, unless the consumer again fulfilled the obligations by way of a consolidation agreement. |
| (3) | Subject to section 86(9) and (10), a credit provider who receives notice of court proceedings contemplated in section 83 or 85, or notice in terms of section 86(4)(b)(i), may not exercise or enforce by litigation or other judicial process any right or security under that credit agreement until— |
| (a) | the consumer is in default under the credit agreement; and |
| (b) | one of the following has occurred: |
| (i) | An event contemplated in subsection (1)(a) through (c); or |
| (ii) | the consumer defaults on any obligation in terms of a re-arrangement agreed between the consumer and credit providers, or ordered by a court or the Tribunal. |
| (4) | If a credit provider enters into a credit agreement, other than a consolidation agreement contemplated in this section, with a consumer who has applied for a debt re-arrangement and that re-arrangement still subsists, all or part of that new credit agreement may be declared to be reckless credit, whether or not the circumstances set out in section 80 apply. |
| (5) | If a consumer applies for or enters into a credit agreement contrary to this section, the provisions of this Part will never apply to that agreement. |
