{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debt-relief-orders-designation-of-competent-authorities-regulations-2009/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debt-relief-orders-designation-of-competent-authorities-regulations-2009/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/457",
  "legislation_title": "The Debt Relief Orders (Designation of Competent Authorities) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debt-relief-orders-designation-of-competent-authorities-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Approval by competent authority",
  "text": "(1) A competent authority may approve an individual to act as an intermediary between a person wishing to make an application for a debt relief order and the official receiver subject as follows.\n(2) An individual may be approved—\n(a) if the individual makes an application to a competent authority to be approved as an intermediary in accordance with the Act and these regulations; and\n(b) it appears to the competent authority that the individual is a fit and proper person to act as intermediary between a person wishing to make an application for a debt relief order and the official receiver.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 6.4.2009, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/457/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:16:50.236224+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."
}