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← Hire-Purchase Act 1969

Hire-Purchase Act 1969 s 6

s 6 Implied terms as to title

6.—(1) In every hire-purchase agreement, other than one to which subsection (2) applies, there is —(a) an implied term on the part of the owner that he will have a right to sell the goods at the time when the property is to pass; and (b) an implied term that —(i) the goods are free, and will remain free until the time when the property is to pass, from any charge or encumbrance not disclosed or known to the hirer; and (ii) the hirer will enjoy quiet possession of the goods except so far as it may be disturbed by any person entitled to the benefit of any charge or encumbrance so disclosed or known. (2) In a hire-purchase agreement, in the case of which there appears from the agreement or is to be inferred from the circumstances of the agreement an intention that the owner should transfer only such title as he or a third person may have, there is —(a) an implied term that all charges or encumbrances known to the owner and not known to the hirer have been disclosed to the hirer before the agreement is made; and (b) an implied term that neither —(i) the owner; nor (ii) in a case where the parties to the agreement intend that any title which may be transferred shall be only such title as a third person may have, that person; nor (iii) anyone claiming through or under the owner or that third person otherwise than under a charge or encumbrance disclosed or known to the hirer, before the agreement is made, will disturb the quiet possession of the hirer. (3) The term implied by subsection (1)(a) is a condition and the terms implied by subsections (1)(b), (2)(a) and (2)(b) are warranties.

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