{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debt-arrangement-scheme-scotland-regulations-2011/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2011/141",
  "legislation_title": "The Debt Arrangement Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debt-arrangement-scheme-scotland-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Approved categories of money advisers",
  "text": "A person, other than a person specified in regulation 10, is an approved money adviser if the person—\n(a) is qualified to act as an insolvency practitioner in accordance with section 390 of the 1986 Act;\n(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;\n(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\n(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;\n(e) works as a money adviser for a local authority; or\n(f) is approved by the DAS Administrator under regulation 9.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 1.7.2011, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "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."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/141/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:50:24.069321+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}