66.— (1) An applicant credit institution and each of its subsidiaries shall, until the Minister makes or is taken to have made a decision on the application—

(a) administer, service and deal with all of its eligible bank assets in the same manner as, and with the same level of professional skill, care and diligence as, a prudent lender acting reasonably would so administer, service and deal, and

(b) so act in relation to those bank assets in good faith having regard to the purposes of this Act.

(2) An applicant credit institution and each of its subsidiaries shall not without the prior written approval of NAMA—

(a) deal with any of its eligible bank assets otherwise than in the ordinary course of its business,

(b) deal with any of its eligible bank assets in such a way as to prejudice or impair NAMA’s prospective interests or priorities in relation to such a bank asset,

(c) compromise, release, vary or relinquish any claim or otherwise take or omit to take any action if its doing so could reduce, lessen or impair any security, right, obligation, ranking or priority held or enjoyed, directly or indirectly, in connection with such a bank asset, or

(d) amend or vary any contract relating to such a bank asset unless contractually obliged to do so.

(3) NAMA may issue guidelines or policy statements in relation to the kinds of transactions that it is likely to be prepared to approve under subsection (2).