Hire-Purchase Act 1964

18In section 21(1) of the Act of 1938—

(a)in the definition of " hire-purchase price ", after the words " to which the agreement relates " there shall be inserted the words " inclusive of any sum so payable by way of a deposit or other initial payment, or credited or to be credited to the hirer under such an agreement on 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 money or by the transfer or delivery of goods or by any other means ; but "; and

(b)at the end of the subsection there shall be added the following words:—

and any reference in this Act to a document which constitutes a hire-purchase agreement or a credit-sale agreement shall be construed as including a reference to a document which together with one or more other documents constitutes such an agreement, and any reference to a document which, if executed by or on behalf of another person, would constitute such an agreement shall be construed accordingly.