Produced by the Office of the Attorney General
Táirgthe ag Oifig an Ard-Aighne
Number 16 of 1946.
HIRE-PURCHASE ACT, 1946.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
1.
Interpretation.
2.
Application of Act.
3.
Requirements relating to hire-purchase agreements.
4.
Requirements relating to credit-sale agreements.
5.
Rights of hirer to determine hire-purchase agreement.
6.
Avoidance of certain provisions.
7.
Duty of owners and sellers to supply documents and information.
8.
Duty of hirer to give information as to whereabouts of goods.
9.
Conditions and warranties to be implied in hire-purchase agreements.
10.
Appropriation of payments made in respect of hire purchase agreements.
11.
Evidence of adverse detention in actions by owners to recover possession of the goods.
12.
Restriction of owner's right to recover possession of goods otherwise than by action.
13.
Powers of court in certain actions by owners to recover possession of the goods.
14.
Effect of postponement of operation of an order for specific delivery of goods to the owner.
15.
Powers of the court to deal with payments arising on determination of hire-purchase agreements.
16.
Successive hire-purchase agreements between the same parties.
17.
Provisions as to bankruptcy of hirer and distress on hirer's premises.
18.
Hirer's refusal to surrender goods not to be conversion in certain cases.
19.
Special provisions as to installation charges.
20.
Jurisdiction of the District Court.
21.
Application of Act in relation to existing agreements.
22.
Short title and commencement.
SCHEDULE.
Acts Referred to
Courts of Justice Act, 1936
No. 48 of 1936
AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW WITH RESPECT TO THE HIRE-PURCHASE AND SALE UPON CREDIT OF GOODS AND THE LAW OF DISTRESS IN ITS RELATION THERETO. [9th July, 1946.]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—
