Hire-Purchase Act 1969 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Hirers
18. Power of hirer to regain possession of goods in certain circumstances
Feedback & supportIf, within 7 business days after giving notice to the owner under section 17(1)(a), the hirer —
owner
“owner” means a person by whom goods are bailed to a hirer under a hire‑purchase agreement or a conditional sale agreement and includes a person whom the owner’s rights or liabilities under the agreement have passed by assignment or by operation of law;
pays or tenders to the owner any amount due by the hirer under the regulated agreement in respect of the period of hiring up to the date of the payment or tender (and for the purposes of this paragraph the hiring shall be deemed to have continued up to that date);
remedies any breach of the agreement or (where he is unable to remedy the breach by reason of the fact that the owner has taken possession of the goods) pays or tenders to the owner the costs and expenses reasonably and actually incurred by the owner in doing any act, matter or thing necessary to remedy the breach; and
pays or tenders to the owner the reasonable costs and expenses of the owner of and incidental to his taking possession of the goods and of his returning them to the hirer,the owner shall forthwith return the goods to the hirer.
The goods shall be received and held by the hirer pursuant to the terms of the regulated agreement as if the breach had not occurred and the owner had not taken possession of the goods.
goods
“goods” includes any replacement or renewal by the hirer of any part or parts of any goods and any accessory added or addition made to any goods by the hirer during the period of the hiring;
Where goods are returned to the hirer under subsection (1) and any breach of the regulated agreement has not been remedied, the owner has no right arising out of the breach to take possession of the goods unless —
hirer
“hirer” means the person who takes or has taken goods from an owner under a hire‑purchase agreement or a conditional sale agreement and includes a person to whom the hirer’s rights or liabilities under the agreement have passed by assignment or by operation of law;
by notice in writing given to the hirer at the time of the return of the goods he specifies the breach and requires it to be remedied; and
the hirer fails within 7 business days or within the time specified in the notice (whichever is the longer) after receiving the notice to remedy the breach.