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The Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space Moratorium and Mental Health Crisis Moratorium) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020
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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space Moratorium and Mental Health Crisis Moratorium) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 No. 1311
Application of moratorium to additional debt
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15.—(1) This regulation applies where a debt advice provider has initiated a moratorium under these Regulations and subsequently—
(a)receives details under regulation 14(2) of a debt not specified as a moratorium debt in a notification from the Secretary of State referred to in regulation 14(1), or
(b)otherwise becomes aware of a debt that is owed by a debtor in relation to whom a moratorium is in place but which was not included in the information provided to the Secretary of State under regulations 25(1)(b) or (c) or 31(1)(b) or (d),
(an “additional debt”).
(2) Where this regulation applies, a debt advice provider must consider whether an additional debt is a qualifying debt.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), if a debt advice provider considers that an additional debt is a qualifying debt, the debt advice provider must provide to the Secretary of State details of the additional debt, including contact details of the creditor to whom the debt is owed.
(4) For a breathing space moratorium, if a debt advice provider receives details, or becomes aware, of an additional debt after the period of 45 days beginning with the day on which a moratorium started, the debt advice provider may provide to the Secretary of State the information required under paragraph (3) in relation to the additional debt if the debt advice provider considers it appropriate for the moratorium to apply in respect of the additional debt.
(5) Where the Secretary of State receives information under paragraphs (3) or (4), the Secretary of State must, by the end of the following business day, provide a notification of the moratorium to those creditors whose contact details have been provided to the Secretary of State in accordance with those paragraphs.
(6) Paragraph (5) is subject to regulation 38.
(7) A moratorium has the effect specified in regulation 7 in relation to an additional debt from the earliest of the date that the creditor to whom the additional debt is owed—
(a)received a notification of the moratorium under paragraph (5), or
(b)is deemed under regulation 37(4) to receive the notification under paragraph (5).
(8) This regulation does not affect the date on which a moratorium starts or ends under these Regulations.
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