25Extension of principal Act to Scotland
(1)The Hire-Purchase Act 1938, as amended by sections 1(1), (2) and (5), 3(1), (2), (3) and (6), 12, 21(1) and 34 of this Act, shall extend to Scotland, subject to—
(a)the modifications set out in Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act, and
(b)the addition of the provisions set out in Part II of the said Schedule, being provisions corresponding to the provisions enacted for England and Wales by sections 2 and 3(1) of the Hire-Purchase Act 1954 and sections 1(3) and (4), 3(4) and (5) and 24(7) of this Act.
(2)In accordance with the preceding subsection the said Act of 1938 shall have effect in Scotland as set out in Part III of the said Schedule 2.
(3)The following enactments shall cease to have effect, that is to say, sections 1 to 5 and 8 and 9 of the Hire Purchase and Small Debt (Scotland) Act 1932, the Hire-Purchase Act 1954 (in so far as it applies to Scotland) and the Credit-Sale Agreements (Scotland) Act 1961.
(4)The following provisions of this subsection shall have effect for the purpose of the construction of any reference (however expressed) in any enactment passed before this Act to a contract to which the Hire Purchase and Small Debt (Scotland) Act 1932 applied or would in certain circumstances have applied:—
(a)if the reference is a reference to a contract to which paragraph (a) of section 1 of that Act applied or would have applied, it shall be construed as a reference to a hire-purchase agreement within the meaning assigned to that expression by section 21(1) of the Act of 1938 ;
(b)if the reference is a reference to a contract to which paragraph (b) of the said section 1 applied or would have applied, it shall be construed as a reference to a conditional sale agreement within the meaning assigned to that expression by section 21(5) of this Act;
(c)if the context of the reference requires that it shall be construed as a reference only to a contract relating to an article within the limitation as to value specified in the said paragraph (a) or, as the case may be, the said paragraph (b) it shall be construed as a reference to a hire-purchase agreement (within the meaning assigned as aforesaid) under which the hire-purchase price does not exceed the limitation for the time being specified in section 1(1) of the Act of 1938 or, as the case may be, a conditional sale agreement (within the meaning assigned as aforesaid) under which the total purchase price does not exceed the limitation specified or referred to in section 21(2) of this Act;
(d)for the removal of doubt it is hereby declared that except as required by the last preceding paragraph no account is to be taken of section 1 of the Act of 1938, or section 2 or the proviso to section 21(2) of this Act, in construing any such reference;
(e)in relation to any such reference, expressions to which meanings are assigned by section 21(1) of the Act of 1938 shall in any enactment passed before this Act have the meanings so assigned to them respectively, unless the context otherwise requires; and any words defining the expressions " purchaser " or " instalment " for the purposes of any such reference shall be disregarded.
(5)In this Part of, and in Schedules 2 and 7 to, this Act, the expression " the Act of 1938 " means the said Act of 1938 as extended to Scotland by this section.