The Debt Arrangement Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2011

Approved categories of money advisers

8.  A person, other than a person specified in regulation 10, is an approved money adviser if the person—

(a) is qualified to act as an insolvency practitioner in accordance with section 390 of the 1986 Act(1);

(b) is an individual who works for such an insolvency practitioner and has been given authority by that practitioner to act on the practitioner’s behalf as a money adviser for the purposes of the debt arrangement scheme;

(c) works as a money adviser for organisations which have been awarded accreditation at Type 2 level or above against the Scottish National Standards for Information and Advice Provision; or

(d) works as a money adviser for a citizens advice bureau which is a full member of the Scottish Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux – Citizens Advice Scotland;

(e) works as a money adviser for a local authority; or

(f) is approved by the DAS Administrator under regulation 9.

(1)

1986 c.45. Section 390 was amended by the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 4), section 88(2), Schedule 5, paragraph 18; the Insolvency Act 2000 (c.39), section 8, Schedule 4, Part 11, paragraph 16(2); the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (Modification of Enactments) Order 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/465), article 2, Schedule 1, paragraph 18(3); the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c.9), section 67(1), (2), Schedule 6, paragraph 31(3), Schedule 7; and the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c.15), section 108(3), Schedule 20, paragraph 6.