Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Act, 1980

Application of section 13 to hire-purchase of motor vehicles.

34.—Where a motor vehicle is let under a hire-purchase agreement, section 13 (which relates to an implied condition on sale of motor vehicles) shall have effect as if a contract for sale were a hire-purchase agreement, the buyer were the hirer and the person by whom the antecedent negotiations (as defined in section 35) were conducted were the seller; and the owner shall, jointly with that person and severally, be answerable to the hirer for breach of the implied condition.