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South Africa: the debt research

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C_ZA-P02-C001 · captured 2026-10-27

GG 42653 / GoN 1086 (19 Aug 2019) expressly withdrew and replaced GG 42649; replacement Act 7 of 2019 records assent 13 Aug 2019.

Conditions and limits: National enactment/source identity. The replaced Gazette is historical evidence, not final authority. Assent and gazetting are not §32 commencement.

Recorded check: selected enacted or document identity supported operative status held

S001 PDF P1/GG p2; S002 PDF P0/GG p2.

Source links: www.gov.za · www.gov.za

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C_ZA-P02-C002 · captured 2026-10-27

Act 7/2019 §32 requires presidential proclamation in the Gazette fixing the date on which the Act operates.

Conditions and limits: President; national commencement. A valid relevant proclamation and its scope/date must be read; no date may be inferred from the Act’s publication.

Recorded check: selected enacted or document identity supported operative status held

S001 §32, P41/GG p42; S003 HTML commencement field.

Source links: www.gov.za · www.gov.za

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C_ZA-P02-C004 · captured 2026-10-27

Proclamation R.10/2015, GG 38557, addresses Act 19 of 2014 under its §39, not Act 7/2019.

Conditions and limits: President; 2014 amendment, operative on publication of that proclamation. Identical generic title creates false-positive risk; its 2015 date and explicit 2014 citation rule it out for 2019.

Recorded check: selected enacted or document identity supported operative status held

S004, complete P0/GG p3.

Source links: www.gov.za

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C_ZA-P02-C006 · captured 2026-10-27

Act §31 contemplates application to earlier principal-Act-covered credit agreements, except amending clauses 19, 25, 26, and uses “2018” in its internal Act-name reference.

Conditions and limits: Credit agreement/Chapter 1 nexus plus commencement. Textual year mismatch must be flagged; no automatic retrospective legal effect or final interpretation claimed.

Recorded check: selected enacted or document identity supported operative status held

S001 §31, P41/GG p42.

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C_ZA-P02-C007 · captured 2026-10-27

Enacted proposed §1 applicant class: natural person or joint-estate persons; specified unsecured-only consumer credit; average gross income ≤ R7,500/month over six preceding months or no income; over-indebted; not sequestrated or subject to an administration order.

Conditions and limits: Applicant and covered agreements at application date; 2019 enacted conditional text, not verified current qualifying criteria. Exact debt and joint-estate classification remain fact-sensitive.

Recorded check: selected enacted or document identity supported operative status held

S001 Act §1(b), P3/GG p4; adjustment reference §171(2A)(a), P39–41/GG pp40–42.

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C_ZApass-01

CZA South Africa

Inside: 1. Principal findings · 1.1 South Africa has distinct legal categories that must not be combined · 1.3 Publication holds already established

21 tables57 claim records37 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-26
C_ZApass-02

CZA South Africa

Inside: Focused finding: 2019 debt-intervention commencement and implementation · Verification window and result · G1 — Enactment, commencement and transitional status

12 tables25 claim records16 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-03

CZA South Africa

Inside: Narrow correction: §87A suspension duration · 1. Finding and exact replacement sentence · 2. Narrow statutory reading

6 tables11 claim records2 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-05

South Africa: continuation of consumer debt-counseling fee research

Inside: C_ZA PASS-05 — continuation from the preserved P04 stopping point · 7. Controlling authority: the crucial distinction is statutory prescription versus NCR guidance · 8. Recovered 2018 fee cells and exact stage conditions

9 tables38 claim records16 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-06

CZA South Africa

Inside: Ordinary NCA debt-review payment-distribution agents: client money, trust accounts and reconciliation · G1. Registration and who may control the money · G2. What the enacted client-money requirements say

18 tables50 claim records13 source recordsCorrections to readCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-07

CZA South Africa

Inside: Ordinary NCA debt-counsellor fees: currentness, incorporation and final-adoption chain · G1.1 What Circular 01 adds to the P05 finding · G1.2 What Circular 01 does not establish

18 tables38 claim records24 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-08

CZA South Africa

Inside: General consumer-service contract, disclosure, cancellation and refund gateway · G1.1 The hypothetical service may be a CPA “service” · G1.3 Natural consumers, juristic consumers and business purpose

14 tables60 claim records14 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-09

CZA four bounded consistency repairs

Inside: Repair 1 — aftercare source linkage · Replacement for C_ZA-P07-C021 · Repair 2 — exact 2025/26 annual-report gap reference

14 tables6 claim records6 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-10

CZA South Africa

Inside: Generic NCR consumer complaint, investigation and public-enforcement/NCT gateway for ordinary debt-counselling conduct · Focused disposition · G1.1 Who may complain

16 tables95 claim records14 source recordsCorrections to readCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-11

CZA South Africa

Inside: Three bounded qualification and traceability repairs to reviewed P08 · Focused disposition · R1 — CPA §14(1): both parties must be juristic persons

14 tables7 claim records2 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-12

CZA South Africa

Inside: Ordinary unsecured private consumer-debt prescription gateway · Principal disposition · G1.1 Current statutory architecture and currentness

16 tables64 claim records16 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-13

CZA South Africa

Inside: NCA agreement, applicability and debt-type classification gateway · Principal disposition · G1.1 Source edition, amendment and commencement

15 tables68 claim records12 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-14

CZA South Africa

Inside: Three bounded repairs to P12, plus count and link consistency · Focused disposition · Replacement for P12 G2.2 — acknowledgment during negotiations

13 tables7 claim records5 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-15

CZA South Africa

Inside: National credit-reporting, debt-review clearance and correction gateway · Principal disposition · G1.1 Source chain and currentness

16 tables72 claim records13 source recordsCorrections to readCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-16

CZA South Africa

Inside: Narrow Magistrates’ Court administration-order gateway · Principal disposition · G1.1 Current statute and source limitations

17 tables98 claim records20 source recordsCorrections to readCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-17

CZA South Africa

Inside: Natural-person voluntary surrender of an estate: national statutory gateway · G1.1 What voluntary surrender is · Deceased-estate boundary

13 tables61 claim records22 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-18

CZA South Africa

Inside: Creditor-initiated sequestration of a natural person: application, provisional order and final-order gateway · Principal findings · Primary anchors

18 tables65 claim records27 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-19

CZA South Africa

Inside: Voluntary surrender: High Court jurisdiction, Master-report procedure and publication directions · Focused disposition · Primary amendment

16 tables36 claim records20 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-20

CZA South Africa

Inside: Section 9 qualifying-claim thresholds and monetary continuity · 1.1 Single-creditor R100: fresh primary judicial confirmation · 1.2 Statutory conversion rule found—not merely historical commentary

16 tables20 claim records17 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-21

CZA South Africa

Inside: Insolvency Act §149: primary jurisdiction text, amendment chain and foreign-designation boundary · Fresh primary judicial text · 1.1 The alternatives and their different dates

15 tables30 claim records19 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
C_ZApass-22

CZA narrow correction to P21

Inside: 1. Replacement for P21 §II.2.2’s §2(3) paragraph · 2. Replacement atomic claim · 4. Effect on workflow and model references

4 tables1 claim records1 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
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