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Hire - Purchase Act 1967 s 4B

Hire - Purchase Act 1967 s 4B

s 4B Hire-purchase agreement to be signed, etc.

(1) Every hire-purchase agreement shall be signed by or on behalf of all parties to the agreement. (2) No owner, dealer, agent or person acting on behalf of the owner shall require or cause any intending hirer or his agent to sign a hire-purchase agreement or any other form or document relating to a hire-purchase agreement unless such hire-purchase agreement, form or document has been duly completed. (2a) No owner shall deliver or cause to be delivered to any dealer, agent or person acting on behalf of the owner a hirepurchase agreement or any other form or document relating to a hire-purchase agreement which has not been duly completed. (3) A hire-purchase agreement that contravenes subsections (1), (2) and (2a) shall be void. (4) An owner, dealer, agent or person acting on behalf of the owner who— (a) enters into a hire-purchase agreement in contravention of subsection (1); (b) requires or causes an intending hirer or his agent to sign a hire-purchase agreement in contravention of subsection (2); or (c) delivers or causes to be delivered a hire-purchase agreement in contravention of subsection (2a), shall, notwithstanding that the hire-purchase agreement is void, be guilty of an offence under this Act.

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Find Act 212 on lom.agc.gov.my ↗

Text as at 1 March 2013 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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