Consumer Credit Act, 1995

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Hire-purchase price.

65.—(1) In this Part “hire-purchase price” means the total sum payable by the hirer under a hire-purchase agreement in order to complete the purchase of the goods to which the agreement relates, exclusive of any sum payable as a penalty or as compensation or damages for a breach of the agreement.

(2) Where an owner has agreed that any part of the hire-purchase price may be discharged otherwise than by payment of cash, any such discharge shall for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be a payment of that part of the hire-purchase price.

(3) Any sum payable by the hirer under a hire-purchase agreement by way of a deposit or other initial payment, or credited or to be credited to the hirer under such an agreement or account of any such deposit or payment, whether that sum is to be or has been paid to the owner or to any other person or is to be or has been discharged by a payment of cash or by the transfer or delivery of goods or by any other means shall form part of the hire-purchase price.