{"id":382,"date":"2015-02-18T02:41:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T02:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/?p=382"},"modified":"2015-05-21T00:37:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T00:37:17","slug":"new-class-licence-introduced-new-zealand-repossession-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/new-class-licence-introduced-new-zealand-repossession-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"New class of licence to be introduced in New Zealand for Repossession Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, the NZ government has seen fit to licence Repossession Agents with the licensing commencing on 6 June 2015. Congratulations to Minister Simon Bridges.<\/p>\n<p>Our managing director Ron McQuilter CFE has been a strong advocate for this licensing with consistent horror stories of scary people breaking into a person\u2019s home due to the small print on the credit contracts permitting this practice. Ron tells the story of one \u201crepo man\u201d who was caught in a house and claimed he was a licensed repo agent. When later pressed the intruder produced a dog licence !!<\/p>\n<p>You can obtain more information about the new licensing regime from the government website at <a title=\"PSPLA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.govt.nz\/tribunals\/PSPLA\/repossession-agents-information\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.justice.govt.nz\/tribunals\/PSPLA\/repossession-agents-information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit repossession agents licensing begins 6 June 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From 6 June 2015, all repossession agents must be licensed and all repossession employees must hold a certificate of approval under the provisions of the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 (PSPPI).<\/p>\n<p>Repossession agents\/employees who continue to repossess consumer goods or claim authority to do so without a licence or certificate will be committing an offence and could be fined up to $40,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, the NZ government has seen fit to licence Repossession Agents with the licensing commencing on 6 June 2015. Congratulations to Minister Simon Bridges. Our managing director Ron McQuilter CFE has been a strong advocate for this licensing with consistent horror stories of scary people breaking into a person\u2019s home due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[76,75,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}