Hire-Purchase Act 1969 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · General
38. Certain alterations of regulated agreements to be of no effect
Feedback & supportWhere a regulated agreement is signed by or on behalf of the hirer, any alteration of, or matter added to, the written document that contains the terms and conditions of the agreement after the document was signed —
regulated agreement
“regulated agreement” means a hire-purchase agreement or a conditional sale agreement which relates to the goods specified in the First Schedule, but does not include any agreement in which the hirer is engaged in the trade or business of selling goods of the same nature or description as the goods comprised in the agreement;
if the alteration is an alteration of any of the matters required to be specified, contained, or set out in the agreement by section 3(3)(c) to (e); or
if the additional matter is a matter required to be so specified, contained, or set out or affects any matter required to be so specified, contained or set out,has no force or effect unless the hirer or his agent has consented to the alteration or the additional matter by signing or initialling in the margin of the agreement opposite the alteration or additional matter.
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;