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Objectives of the National Credit Act
The purpose of this act is to promote and advance the social and economic welfareof South Africans, promote a fair, transparent, competative, sustainable, reponsible, efficient, effective and accessible credit market and industry, and to protect consumers.- to promote black economic empowerment and ownership within the consumer credit industry
- 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 establish the National Credit Regulator and the National Credit Tribunal
- to repeal the Usury Act, 1968, and the Credit Agreements Act, 1980, and to provide for related incidental matters
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