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National Credit ACT 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 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 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.
