Hire-Purchase Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · General
43. Power of court to extend times
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any time prescribed by this Act for the service or giving of any notice or other document or for the commencement of proceedings may, on an application made to the court (either before or after the expiration of that
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time but after notice to the other party to the hire-purchase agreement), be extended by that court for such further period, and upon such conditions, as the court thinks fit.
hire-purchase agreement
“hire-purchase agreement” includes a letting of goods with an option to purchase and an agreement for the purchase of goods by instalments (whether the agreement describes the instalments as rent, hire or otherwise), but does not include any agreement — (a) whereby the property in the goods comprised therein passes at the time of the agreement or upon or at any time before delivery of the goods; or (b) under which the person by whom the goods are being hired or purchased is a person who is engaged in the trade or business of selling goods of the same nature or description as the goods comprised in the agreement;
Terms defined in s 2
hire-purchase agreement
Defined · s 2“hire-purchase agreement” includes a letting of goods with an option to purchase and an agreement for the purchase of goods by instalments (whether the agreement describes the instalments as rent, hire or otherwise), but does not include any agreement — (a) whereby the property in the goods comprised therein passes at the time of the agreement or upon or at any time before delivery of the goods; or (b) under which the person by whom the goods are being hired or purchased is a person who is engaged in the trade or business of selling goods of the same nature or description as the goods comprised in the agreement;