§ 2-6. When the enforcement officer must reject an application

The Debt Settlement Act (Gjeldsordningsloven)·LOV-1992-07-17-99

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§ 2-6. The enforcement officer's authority to reject applications

The enforcement officer (namsfogden) shall reject the application (søknad) for debt negotiation (gjeldsforhandling) if:
  1. it is clearly established that the conditions for debt settlement (gjeldsordning) under §§ 1-2 to 1-4 are not met,
  2. the debtor (skyldner) does not contribute, to the best of their ability, to the clarification of the case, or
  3. the debtor does not, within a reasonable time, sell or contribute to the sale of assets that the enforcement officer, under § 2-5 first paragraph, has ordered the debtor to sell before debt negotiation is opened.
Source: Lovdata — Gjeldsordningsloven (the Debt Settlement Act) § 2-6

What does this mean?

The section lists three reasons why the enforcement officer must say no to an application. The first is that the conditions in §§ 1-2 to 1-4, that is, the scope of the Act, the financial condition and the obstacles in § 1-4, are clearly not met. The second is that you do not do what you can to get the case clarified. The third is that you do not, within a reasonable time, sell what the enforcement officer has ordered you to sell.

The last reason is based on § 2-5. When the enforcement officer is not to decide on the opening themselves, the case goes to the court (retten) under § 2-7.

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