HIRE-PURCHASE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 9 Requirements as to copies where hirer or buyer signs at appropriate trade premises.

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HIRE-PURCHASE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 9

Requirements as to copies where hirer or buyer signs at appropriate trade premises.

9.(1) The requirements of this section, in relation to an agreement which is
signed by the hirer or buyer at a place other than 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) A copy of the relevant document (in this Part referred to as "the first
statutory copy") shall be delivered or sent to the hirer or buyer as follows,
that is to say

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

(b)if the relevant document is sent to the hirer or buyer for his signature, a
copy of that document, in the form in which it then is, shall be sent to him
at the time when that document is sent.

(3) Within seven days of the making of the agreement, a copy of the agreement
(in this Part referred to as "the second statutory copy") shall be sent by
post to the hirer or buyer.

(4) The first statutory copy and the second statutory copy shall each contain
such a statement of the rights of the hirer or buyer under section 11, and of
matters relating to or consequential upon the exercise of those rights, as may
be prescribed by regulations made by the Ministry; and that statement shall be
so contained in such position, and shall comply with such other requirements
(whether as to type, size, colour or disposition of lettering or otherwise) as
may be so prescribed.

(5) Any statement which, in accordance with regulations made under subsection
(4), is contained either in the first statutory copy or in the second
statutory copy shall specify the name of a person to whom, and an address to
which, notice of cancellation may be sent; and (without prejudice to any other
respect in which, in accordance with section 17(5) of the Interpretation Act
(Northern Ireland) 1954, the regulations may make different provision as
between the first statutory copy and the second statutory copy, or as between
copies delivered and copies sent) different names and addresses may be so
specified in the first statutory copy and the second statutory copy of the
same document.

(6) The first statutory copy and the second statutory copy shall each comply
with the requirements of any regulations made under section 32.

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HIRE-PURCHASE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 9