Hire-Purchase Act 1964 (c. 53)

PART I Amendment of Law relating to Hire-Purchase and Credit-Sale in England and Wales

13 Implied conditions in hire-purchase by reference to sample or by description

(1) Where goods are let under a hire-purchase agreement to which the principal Act applies, and the goods are so let by reference to a sample, there shall be in the hire-purchase agreement—

(a) an implied condition that the bulk will correspond with the sample in quality, and

(b) an implied condition that the hirer will have a reasonable opportunity of comparing the bulk with the sample.

(2) Where goods are let under a hire-purchase agreement to which the principal Act applies, and are so let by description, there shall be in the hire-purchase agreement an implied condition that the goods will correspond with the description; and if the goods are let under the hire-purchase agreement by reference to a sample, as well as by description, it shall not be sufficient that the bulk of the goods corresponds with the sample if the goods do not also correspond with the description.