Hire-Purchase Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · General
47. Size, type etc. required in certain documents
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any prescribed document or part thereof —
not being the signature or initials of any person, that is in handwriting that is not clear and legible; or
that is printed in type of a size smaller than the type known as ten-point Times, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed not to be in writing.
Where, by virtue of this section, a prescribed document or part of a prescribed document is, for the purposes of this Act, deemed not to be in writing, then, except as is otherwise in this Act expressly provided, the validity or effect of the prescribed document shall not be affected.
Nothing in this section shall affect the liability of any person to be convicted of an offence under this Act.
In this section, “prescribed document” means —
any hire-purchase agreement;
any written statement under section 3(1);
any copy of an agreement, notice or statement required by section 4 to be served on a hirer;
any statement required by section 8(1) to be sent to a hirer;
and
any notice under section 15(1) or (3).
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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;
hirer
Defined · s 2“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;