Hire Purchase Agreements Act Amendment Act 1937 (WA)

No. 24.] Hire Purchase Agreements. [1937.

HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENTS.

1° AND 2° GEO. VI., No. XXIV.

No. 24 of 1937.

AN ACT to amend Section five of the Hire Purchase

Agreements Aet, 1931.

[Assented to 18th January, 1938.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

This Act may be cited as the Hire Purchase Agree- ments Act Amendment Act, 1937, and shall be read as one with the Hire Purchase Agreements Act, 1931 (No.

Short title. 1.

22 of 1931), hereinafter called the principal Act.

Amendment	2.	Section five of the principal Act is amended, as
a. 5 of

principal Act. follows :-

(a) by repealing subsection (1) and substituting the

f ollowing

(1.) A)Thenever the vendor (except by the re- quest or at the instance of the purchaser) shall take possession of any chattel the subject of a hire purchase agreement the vendor shall within twenty-one days thereafter prepare and serve on the purchaser an account under this section as between the vendor and the purchaser;

(b) by adding a subsection after subsection (1), as

f ollows

(la.) If a vendor takes possession of a chattel,

except by the request or at the instance of the

purchaser, he shall serve a copy of the provis-

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ions of this section on the purchaser within seven

days after taking possession of the chattel.

Penalty: Twenty pounds.

3. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be eilagn o peanidet

cited as the Hire Purchase Agreements Act, 1931-1937. rat