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Hire-Purchase
Cap. 292 · Revised Edition 2020 · 21 sections
- s. 1Short title
- s. 2Interpretation
- s. 3Application of Act
- s. 4Requirements relating to hire-purchase agreements
- s. 5Hire-purchase agreement not enforceable unless requirement of section 4 complied with and the agreement put in writing
- s. 6Requirements relating to credit-sale agreements
- s. 7Right of hirer to terminate hire-purchase agreement
- s. 8Avoidance of certain provisions
- s. 9Duty of owners and sellers to supply documents and information
- s. 10Duty of hirer to give information as to whereabouts of goods
- s. 11Conditions and warranties to be implied in hire-purchase agreements
- s. 12Appropriation of payments made in respect of hire-purchase agreements
- s. 13Evidence of adverse detention in action by owners to recover possession
- s. 14Restriction of owner’s right to recover possession of goods otherwise than by action
- s. 15Powers of court in certain actions by owners to recover possession of the goods
- s. 16Effect of postponed order
- s. 17Powers of the court to deal with payments arising on determination of hire-purchase agreements
- s. 18Successive hire-purchase agreements between the same parties
- s. 19Provisions as to bankruptcy of hirer and distress on hirer’s premises
- s. 20Hirer’s refusal to surrender goods not to be conversion in certain cases
- s. 21Special provisions as to installation charges