Our pledge as per the National Credit Regulations guidelines we aim:
- to promote a fair and non-discriminatory marketplace for access to consumer credit and for that purpose to provide for the general regulation of consumer credit and improved standards of consumer information;
- to prohibit certain unfair credit and credit-marketing practices;
- to promote responsible credit granting and use and for that purpose to prohibit reckless credit granting;
- to provide for debt re-organisation in cases of over-indebtedness;
- to regulate credit information;
- to provide for registration of credit bureaux, credit providers and debt counselling services;
- to establish national norms and standards relating to consumer credit;
- to promote a consistent enforcement framework relating to consumer credit;
- to establish the National Credit Regulator and the National Consumer Tribunal;
- to repeal the Usury Act, 1968, and the Credit Agreements Act, 1980;
- and to provide for related incidental matters.