(1)Section 2 of the Advertisements (Hire-Purchase) Act 1957 (which sets out the information required to be included in advertisements to which that Act applies) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this section.
(2)In subsection (2) of that section (which relates to advertisements which contain details of payments), in paragraph (e) the word " and " shall be omitted, and at the end of paragraph (f) there shall be inserted the words “and
(g)a sum stated as the hire-purchase price or total purchase price of the goods and being, in either case, the amount (directly expressed) of the aggregate of the amount of the deposit (if any) and of all the instalments payable.”
(3)In subsection (3) of that section (which relates to advertisements which do not contain details of payments), in paragraph (b) (which excludes any requirement to set out the information specified in paragraphs (b) and (f) of subsection (2)) for the words " paragraphs (b) and (f)" there shall be substituted the words " paragraphs (b), (f) and (g) ".
(4)At the end of subsection (4) of that section (which defines an advertisement which contains details of payments) there shall be added the words " or if it states a sum as the hire-purchase price or total purchase price of those goods ".