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HIRE-PURCHASE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 32

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32.(1) The Ministry may make regulations prescribing such requirements
(whether as to type, size, colour or disposition of lettering, quality or
colour of paper, or otherwise) as the Ministry may consider appropriate for
securing that documents to which this section applies are easily legible.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the documents to which this section applies are
documents of any of the following descriptions, that is to say

(a)any hire-purchase agreement, credit-sale agreement or
conditional sale agreement;

(b)any such copy as is mentioned in section 8(2) or (3) or in section 9(2) or
(3);

(c)any copy supplied to a hirer or buyer in pursuance of a request made by him
under section 21;

(d)any note or memorandum of a contract of guarantee relating to a
hire-purchase agreement, credit-sale agreement or conditional sale agreement,
and any such copy as is mentioned in section 22(1)(a) or (b);

(e)any such copy as is mentioned in subsection (2)(a) or (b) of section 23
which is supplied to a guarantor in pursuance of a request made by him under
subsection (1) of that section.

(3) Without prejudice to the operation of section 17(5) of the Interpretation
Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 in relation to any regulations made under this
section, any such regulations

(a)may specify which parts of the contents of a document to which the
regulations apply are permitted to consist of handwriting or a reproduction of
handwriting, and may prescribe different requirements in relation to so much
of the contents of such a document as is permitted to consist, and consists,
of handwriting or a reproduction of handwriting and in relation to the
remainder of the contents of such a document; and

(b)may except from any of the requirements of the regulations any marginal
notes or other subsidiary parts of a document.

(4) In relation to so much of any document falling within subsection (2)(a) or
(b) as consists of

(a)words or other matters prescribed by regulations made under section 7(2),
or

(b)a statement required to be contained therein as prescribed by regulations
made under section 9(4),

1954 c.33



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