Social Assistance Act, 2004 (Act No. 13 of 2004)Regulations relating to the Application for and Payment of Social Assistance and the requirements or conditions in respect of eligibility for Social AssistanceChapter 7 : Standard Rules and Procedure applicable at Pay-Points33. Prohibition of credit providers and other persons enforcing credit agreements within areas of Agency office and pay-points |
Subject to the provisions of section 20(1) and (2) of the Act—
| (1) | A credit provider, credit agent or any person must not— |
| (a) | enter any Agency office or any pay-point premises, building or place on any day or any time during the payment of social assistance for the purposes of engaging or offering to engage in any form of credit or concluding a credit agreement or contract or collecting from any such beneficiaries any money owing in terms of any verbal or written credit agreement or contract; |
| (b) | accompany a beneficiary or a procurator to any Agency office or pay-point on any day or at any time during which a beneficiary or a procurator is to receive payment of social assistance for the purposes of engaging or offering to engage in any form of credit, concluding a credit agreement, funeral policy, life insurance policy or collecting money owing to such person by the beneficiary in terms of any form of credit agreement; or |
| (c) | be within 100 metres of any pay-point for purposes of engaging or offering to engage in any form of credit agreement, funeral policy, life insurance policy or collecting money owing to such person by the beneficiary in terms of any form of credit agreement. |
[Regulation 33 substituted by section 16 of Government Notice No. R. 621 of 21 July 2015]