Hire-Purchase Bill
Table of Contents
Long Title
Enacting Formula
Part I PRELIMINARY
1 Short title, commencement and application
2 Interpretation
Part II FORM AND CONTENTS OF HIRE-PURCHASE AGREEMENTS
3 Requirements relating to hire-purchase agreements
4 Copy of documents to be served on hirer
5 Hire-purchase agreements which are not enforceable
Part III PROTECTION OF HIRERS AND GUARANTORS
Warranties and Conditions
6 Conditions and warranties to be implied in every hire-purchase agreement
7 Liability of the owner and person acting on his behalf for misrepresentation
Part IV HIRERS
Statutory rights of hirers
8 Duty of owners and sellers to supply documents and information
9 Appropriation of payments made in hire-purchase agreements
10 Power of District Court to allow goods to be removed
11 Assignments of rights under hire-purchase agreement
12 Operation of law
13 Early completion of agreement
14 Power of hirer to terminate hiring
Re-possession
15 Notices to be given to hirer when goods re-possessed
16 Owner to retain possession of goods re-possessed for fourteen days
17 As to hirer’s rights and immunities when goods re-possessed
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 re-possessed
Part V GUARANTORS
20 Provisions as to guarantors
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 VI INSURANCE
25 As to insurance of goods comprised in hire-purchase agreements
26 Powers of court in relation to insurance contracts associated with hire-purchase agreements
27 As to contents of contracts of insurance
28 Application of Part VI
Part VII GENERAL
29 Limitation on terms charges
30 Minimum deposits
31 Certain payments, etc., not to be treated as deposits for the purposes of this Part
32 Power of court to re-open certain hire-purchase transactions
33 Avoidance of certain provisions
34 Provisions relating to securities collateral to hire-purchase 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, etc., of hire-purchase agreements to be of no effect
39 Second-hand goods
40 Workers’ lien
41 Power of District Court to extend times
42 Power of court to order delivery of goods unlawfully detained
43 Service of notices
44 Proof of service
45 Size, type, etc., required in certain documents
46 Penalty
47 Regulations
Explanatory Statement
Expenditure of Public Money