| (a) | with the process of being declared over-indebted; |
| (b) | to have his or her obligations, or the obligations of the joint estate, re-arranged; |
| (c) | to have his or her debt intervention application considered for an order contemplated in section 87A; or |
| (d) | to have his or her application for rehabilitation contemplated in section 88B be considered by the Tribunal. |
| (2) | To enable the National Credit Regulator to assist a debt intervention applicant as contemplated in subsection (1), the Chief Executive Officer or any employee duly authorised by the Chief Executive Officer— |
| (a) | may appoint any suitable employee of the National Credit Regulator, or any other suitable person employed by the State, as a debt intervention officer; and |
| (b) | must issue each debt intervention officer with a certificate in the prescribed form stating that the person has been appointed as a debt intervention officer and as such is deemed to have been registered as a debt counsellor, as contemplated in section 44, for purposes of the services contemplated in subsection (1) only. |
[Section 15A inserted by section 3 of Notice No. 1081, GG 42649, dated 19 August 2019]
