Regulatory Alerts2026-02-06
Fair Reporting of Credit (Budget Amendment) Act 2025
The Parliament of the Republic of Fiji enacted the Fair Reporting of Credit (Budget Amendment) Act 2025 to amend the Fair Reporting of Credit Act 2016. The legislation expands the statutory definition of credit information to explicitly include publicly available data regarding an individual's bankruptcy or insolvency status. This amendment was passed on July 18, 2025, and officially came into force on August 1, 2025.
115 TO AMEND THE FAIR REPORTING OF CREDIT ACT 2016 ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji— Short title and commencement 1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Fair Reporting of Credit (Budget Amendment) Act 2025. (2) This Act comes into force on 1 August 2025. Section 2 amended 2. The Fair Reporting of Credit Act 2016 is amended in the definition of “credit information” by— (a) in paragraph (a), after “;” deleting “or”; (b) in paragraph (b), after “;” inserting “or”; and (c) after paragraph (b), inserting the following new paragraph— “(c) information that is publicly available with respect to the status of bankruptcy or insolvency of a person;”. Passed by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji this 18th day of July 2025. ACT NO. 22 OF 2025 I assent. R. N. T. LALABALAVU President [21 July 2025] AN ACT Price: 24c STAR PRINTERY PTE LTD, (Government Printer), Suva, Fiji – 2025 22/Z/25—170 Official Printer Since 2022