HIRE-PURCHASE ACT 1959
Table of Provisions
PART I -- Preliminary
- 1 Short title and commencement
- 1A Application of Act
- 2 Terms used
- 2A Orders making Act inapplicable
PART II -- Formation and contents of hire-purchase agreements
- 3 Preliminary requirements to entering agreement or offering to hire; form and content of agreements; consequences of non-conforming agreements
- 4 Owner to serve certain documents on hirer
PART III -- Protection of hirers
Division 1 -- Warranties and conditions
- 5 Conditions and warranties implied in every agreement
- 6 Representations etc. by owner etc. to hirer, consequences of
Division 2 -- Statutory rights of hirers
- 7 Hirer entitled to copy of agreement and statement of amounts paid, overdue and to be paid
- 8 Payment made under 2 or more agreements, apportionment of
- 9 Assigning hirer’s rights under agreements
- 10 Court may allow goods to be moved
Division 3 -- Early completion of agreements
- 11 Hirer may complete purchase at any time
Division 4 -- Voluntary return of goods
- 12 Terminating hiring by returning goods
Division 5 -- Repossessions
- 12A Repossession requires Commissioner’s consent in some cases
- 13 Procedure for and on repossessing goods
- 14 Owner to retain repossessed goods for 21 days
- 15 Hirer’s rights and immunities on repossession
- 16 Hirer may obtain return of goods in some cases
- 17 Court may vary existing judgments etc. against hirer if goods are repossessed
PART IV -- Guarantees
- 18 Guarantors
- 19 Some agreements by guarantor void if guarantor not independently advised
PART V -- Insurance
- 20 Insurance of goods hired under agreement
- 21 Court’s powers as to insurance contracts associated with hire-purchase agreements
- 22 Contracts of insurance and related agreements, content of
- 23 Application of Part V
PART VI -- Miscellaneous
- 23A Commissioner
- 23B Delegation by Commissioner
- 24 Court may reopen certain hire-purchase transactions
- 25 Repossessing certain goods from farmers
- 26 Lien of worker on hired goods
- 27 Hired goods that have become fixtures
- 28 Provisions in agreements that are void
- 29 Payments etc. by financiers to dealers, restrictions on
- 30 Some transactions as to bailment prohibited
- 31 Securities collateral to hire-purchase agreements
- 32 False statements by dealers etc. in proposals
- 33 Hirer may be required to state where goods are
- 34 Fraudulent sale or disposal of goods by hirer
- 35 Court may extend prescribed times
- 36 Court may order delivery of goods unlawfully detained
- 36A Relief against consequences of breach of agreement by hirer
- 36C Investigation powers
- 37 Service of notices and proof of service
- 37A Court may dispense with service
- 38 Text of prescribed documents to be legible etc.
- 39 General offence and penalty
- 40 Time limit for prosecutions
- 40A Regulations
