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HIRE-PURCHASE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 8

Requirements as to contents and form of agreements.

8.(1) The requirements of this section, in relation to an agreement which is
signed by the hirer or buyer at appropriate trade premises, are that copies
are delivered or sent to the hirer or buyer in accordance with the following
provisions of this section.

(2) If either

(a)the agreement is signed by or on behalf of all other parties immediately
after it is signed by the hirer or buyer, and a copy of the agreement is there
and then delivered to him, or

(b)the agreement having been signed by or on behalf of all other parties
before it is signed by the hirer or buyer, a copy of the agreement is
delivered to him immediately after he signs the agreement,

(3) If, in a case not falling within paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of
subsection (2),

(a)either

(i)the relevant document is presented, and not sent, to the hirer or buyer for
his signature, and immediately after he signs it there is delivered to him a
copy of that document in the form in which it then is, or

(ii)the relevant document is sent to the hirer for his signature, and at the
time when it is sent there is also sent to him a copy of that document in the
form in which it then is, and

(b)in either case, a copy of the agreement is delivered or sent to the hirer
or buyer within seven days of the making of the agreement,

(4) In this and the next following section "the relevant document" means the
document which, on being signed by the hirer or buyer and by or on behalf of
all other parties to the agreement, becomes the hire-purchase agreement,
credit-sale agreement or conditional sale agreement, as the case may be.

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