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HIRE-PURCHASE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 49

Successive agreements.

49.(1) Where goods have been let under a hire-purchase agreement, or have been
agreed to be sold under a conditional sale agreement, and the owner or seller
brings an action to enforce a right to recover possession of the goods from
the hirer or buyer, and either

(a)the action is one to which section 35 applies, or

(b)the action is brought before one-third of the hire-purchase price or
total purchase price has been paid (whether in pursuance of a judgment or
otherwise) or tendered by or on behalf of the hirer or buyer or any guarantor,

(2) Where an action such as is described in subsection (1) is brought in the
county court and the owner claims any sums due under the
hire-purchase agreement or conditional sale agreement or under a
contract of guarantee relating thereto, the county court shall have
jurisdiction to hear and determine the action as well in relation to that
claim as in relation to the claim to enforce such a right as is mentioned in
subsection (1), if apart from this section the county court would not have
jurisdiction to do so.

(3) Subsection (2) shall have effect without prejudice to the operation of
sections 41 to 44.

(4) Any reference in this section to section 35 or sections 41 to 44 shall be
construed as including a reference to that section, or those sections, as the
case may be, as applied by section 45 to conditional sale agreements.

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