Hire-Purchase Act 1969 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Implied Terms
6A. Bailing or hiring by description
Feedback & supportWhere under a hire-purchase agreement goods are bailed by description, there is an implied term that the goods will correspond with the description, and if under the agreement the goods are bailed by reference to a sample as well as a description, it is not sufficient that the bulk of the goods corresponds with the sample if the goods do not also correspond with the description.
hire-purchase agreement
“hire-purchase agreement” means an agreement, other than a conditional sale agreement, under which —(a)goods are bailed in return for periodical payments to the hirer; and(b)the property in the goods will pass to the hirer if the terms of the agreement are complied with and one or more of the following occur:(i)the exercise of an option to purchase by the hirer;(ii)the doing of any other specified act by any party to the agreement;(iii)the happening of any other specified event;
The term implied by subsection (1) is a condition.
Goods shall not be prevented from being bailed by description by reason only that, being exposed for sale or bailment, they are selected by the hirer.
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;