Hire-Purchase Amendment Act 1995 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

HIRE-PURCHASE AMENDMENT

ACT 1995

No. 43 of 1995

AN ACT to amend the Hire-Purchase Act 1959.

[Assented to 17 October 1995.]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Hire-Purchase Amendment

Act 1995.

No. 43] Hire-Purchase Amendment Act 1995

Commencement

2.     This Act comes into operation on the day on which it

receives the Royal Assent.

Section 2A inserted

3. After section 2 of the Hire-Purchase Act 1959* the following

section is inserted -

4t

Orders making Act inapplicable

2A. (1) The Governor may, by order published in the Government Gazette, declare that the provisions of this Act, or such of those provisions as are specified in the order —

(a)	do not have effect in relation to a specified person or to a specified class of persons;
(b)	have effect in relation to a specified person or to a specified class of persons to such extent as is specified;
(c)	do not have effect in relation to a specified transaction or matter or class of transactions or matters;
(d)	have effect in relation to a specified transaction or matter or class of transactions or matters to such extent as is specified;
(e)	do not have effect in relation to a specified transaction or class of transactions entered into by a specified person or specified class of persons or in relation to specified associated matters; or

Hire-Purchase Amendment Act 1995 [No. 43

(f) have effect in relation to a specified transaction or class of transactions entered into by a specified person or specified class of persons, or in relation to specified associated matters, to such extent as is specified.

(2) An order made under subsection (1)

(a)	may specify the period during which the order shall remain in force; or
(b)	may provide that its operation is subject to such terms and conditions as are specified in the order,

but any such order may be made only in respect of hire purchase transactions entered into for the purpose of providing goods for Government purposes.

(3) The Governor may, by order published in the Government Gazette, revoke or vary an order made under this section.

(4) An order made under this section, including an order that is varied under this section, is to be taken to be a regulation for the purposes of section 42 of the Interpretation Act 1984 and that section applies accordingly.

(5) An order in force under this section, including an order that is varied under this section, has effect according to its tenor.

(6) A person to whom an order under this section applies, including an order that is varied under this section, shall comply with the terms and conditions (if any) to which the operation of the order is subject.

Penalty: $5 000.

No. 43] Hire-Purchase Amendment Act 1995

{* Reprinted as at 5 February 1986.

For subsequent amendments see 1994 Index to

Legislation of Western Australia, Table 1, pp. 96-7.]