Hire-Purchase Act 1969
Table of Contents
Long Title
Part 1 PRELIMINARY
1 Short title and application
2 Interpretation
Part 2 FORM AND CONTENTS OF REGULATED AGREEMENTS
3 Requirements relating to regulated agreements
4 Copy of documents to be served on hirer
5 Regulated agreements which are not enforceable
Part 3 IMPLIED TERMS
6 Implied terms as to title
6A Bailing or hiring by description
6B Implied undertakings as to quality or fitness
6C Samples
6D Modification of remedies for breach of statutory condition in non-consumer cases
6E Exclusion of implied terms
6F Special provisions as to conditional sale agreements
6G Interpretation of this Part
Part 4 HIRERS
7 Liability of owner and person acting on his behalf for misrepresentation
8 Duty of owners to supply documents and information
9 Appropriation of payments made in regulated agreements
10 Power of court to allow goods to be removed
11 Assignments of right, title and interest of hirer under regulated agreement
11A Assignments of right, title and interest of owner under regulated agreement
12 Passing of right, title and interest by operation of law
13 Early completion of agreement
14 Power of hirer to terminate hiring
15 Notices to be given to hirer when goods repossessed
16 Owner to retain possession of goods repossessed for 7 business days
17 Hirer’s rights and immunities when goods repossessed
18 Power of hirer to regain possession of goods in certain circumstances
19 Power of court to vary existing judgments or orders when goods are repossessed
Part 5 GUARANTORS
20 Liability of guarantor and his rights on repossession
21 Guarantor not to be bound in certain cases
22 Rights of guarantor against owner
23 Rights of guarantor against hirer
24 Guarantor not to seize
Part 6 INSURANCE
25 Owner may require insurance cover for goods
26 Restrictions on owner’s rights to require insurance
27 Benefit of rebate to pass to hirer
28 Contents of contracts of insurance
Part 7 GENERAL
29 Limitation on terms charges
30 (Repealed)
31 (Repealed)
32 Power of court to reopen certain regulated agreement transactions
33 Avoidance of certain provisions
34 Provisions relating to securities collateral to regulated agreements
35 False statement by dealers, etc., in proposals
36 Hirer may be required to state where goods are
37 Fraudulent sale or disposal of goods by hirer
38 Certain alterations of regulated agreements to be of no effect
39 Secondhand goods
40 Worker’s lien
41 Fixtures
42 Operation of certain laws
43 Power of court to extend times
44 Power of court to order delivery of goods unlawfully detained
45 Service of notices or documents
46 Proof of service
47 Size, type, etc., required in certain documents
48 Penalty
49 Regulations