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Hire-Purchase Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · General
Hire-Purchase Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · General
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any notice or document required or authorised to be served on or given or sent to an owner or hirer or any person under this Act is deemed to be duly served or given or sent if it has been —
owner
“owner” means a person who lets or has let goods to a hirer under a hire-purchase agreement and includes a person to whom the rights or liabilities of the owner under the agreement have passed by assignment or by operation of law;
delivered to him personally;
left at his place of residence or business with some other person apparently an inmate thereof or employed thereat and apparently of or over the age of 16 years; or
posted by registered post addressed to him at his last known place of residence or business.
Hire-Purchase
hirer
“hirer” means the person who takes or has taken goods from an owner under a hire-purchase agreement and includes a person to whom the rights or liabilities of the hirer under the agreement have passed by assignment or by operation of law;
owner
“owner” means a person who lets or has let goods to a hirer under a hire-purchase agreement and includes a person to whom the rights or liabilities of the owner under the agreement have passed by assignment or by operation of law;