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Number 15 of 1960.


HIRE-PURCHASE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1960.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I

Preliminary and General

Section

1.

Short title, collective citation and construction.

2.

Commencement.

3.

Definitions.

4.

Laying of orders before Houses of the Oireachtas.

5.

Expenses.

PART II

Control of Hire-Purchase, Credit-Sale and Letting of Goods

6.

Control of hire-purchase, credit-sale and letting of goods.

7.

Furnishing of information.

8.

Authorised officers.

9.

Powers of authorised officers.

10.

Prohibition on disclosure of information.

11.

Contravention of order.

12.

Offences in relation to bodies corporate and unincorporated bodies.

13.

Penalties.

14.

Prosecution of offences.

PART III

Amendment of the Principal Act

15.

Further provisions relating to postponed orders for specific delivery of goods.

16.

Recovery of possession of motor vehicles let under hire-purchase agreements.

17.

Liability of guarantor where goods are returned to owner.

18.

Appropriation of payments by owner in respect of hire-purchase agreements.

19.

Jurisdiction of the courts.

20.

Amendment of definition of hire-purchase price.

21.

Amendment of section 3 of the Principal Act.

22.

Amendment of section 4 of the Principal Act.

23.

Restriction of section 5 of the Principal Act.

24.

Amendment of section 7 of the Principal Act.

25.

Amendment of section 16 of the Principal Act.

PART IV

Miscellaneous

26.

Remittal or transfer of actions.

27.

Judgments in actions for the recovery of goods let under hire-purchase agreements to be given only by a Judge or the Master of the High Court.

28.

Sale by dealer of goods let to him under a hire-purchase agreement.

29.

Repeals.

SCHEDULE


Acts Referred to

Hire-Purchase Act, 1946

1946, No. 16

Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851,

1851, c. 93

Enforcement of Court Orders Act, 1926

1926, No. 18

Courts of Justice Act, 1924

1924, No. 10

Courts of Justice Act, 1936

1936, No. 48

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Number 15 of 1960.


HIRE-PURCHASE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1960.


AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW WITH RESPECT TO THE HIRE-PURCHASE, SALE UPON CREDIT AND LETTING OF GOODS AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO AMEND THE HIRE-PURCHASE ACT, 1946 . [8th June, 1960.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—