Singapore legislation
Section 18
Section 18
Interpretation
(1)
In this Act —
Definition
“bailee”, in relation to a contract for the hire of goods, means (depending on the context) a person to whom the goods are bailed under the contract, or a person to whom they are to be so bailed, or a person to whom the rights under the contract of either of those persons have passed;
Definition
“bailor”, in relation to a contract for the hire of goods, means (depending on the context) a person who bails the goods under the contract, or a person who agrees to do so, or a person to whom the duties under the contract of either of those persons have passed;
Definition
“business” includes a profession and the activities of any Government department or local or public authority;
Definition
“credit-broker” means a person acting in the course of a business of credit brokerage carried on by him;
Definition
“credit brokerage” means the effecting of introductions —
of individuals desiring to obtain credit to persons carrying on any business so far as it relates to the provision of credit;
of individuals desiring to obtain goods on hire to persons carrying on a business which comprises or relates to the bailment of goods under a contract for the hire of goods; or
of individuals desiring to obtain credit, or to obtain goods on hire, to other credit-brokers;
Definition
“enactment” means any legislation (including subsidiary legislation) of Singapore;
Definition
“goods” includes all personal chattels (including emblements, industrial growing crops, and things attached to or forming part of the land which are agreed to be severed before the transfer or bailment concerned or under the contract concerned) other than things in action and money;
Definition
“hire‑purchase agreement” has the same meaning as in the Hire‑Purchase Act 1969;
Definition
“property”, in relation to goods, means the general property in them and not merely a special property;
Definition
“transferee”, in relation to a contract for the transfer of goods, means (depending on the context) a person to whom the property in the goods is transferred under the contract, or a person to whom the property is to be so transferred, or a person to whom the rights under the contract of either of those persons have passed;
Definition
“transferor”, in relation to a contract for the transfer of goods, means (depending on the context) a person who transfers the property in the goods under the contract, or a person who agrees to do so, or a person to whom the duties under the contract of either of those persons have passed.
(2)
In subsection (1), in the definitions of “bailee”, “bailor”, “transferee” and “transferor”, a reference to rights or duties passing is to their passing by assignment, operation of law or otherwise.
(3)
For the purposes of this Act, the quality of goods includes their state and condition and the following (among others) are in appropriate cases aspects of the quality of goods:
fitness for all the purposes for which goods of the kind in question are commonly supplied;
appearance and finish;
freedom from minor defects;
safety;
durability.
(4)
References in this Act to dealing as consumer are to be construed in accordance with Part 1 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977.
(5)
For the purposes of this Act, it is for the transferor or bailor claiming that the transferee or bailee does not deal as consumer to show that he does not.