Consumer Credit Act 1974

20 In section 2, for subsection (6) substitute—

“(6) If as respects goods of any class or description regulations under section 1 above so provide, subsections (1) to (3) above (other than subsection 3(d) and (e)) shall apply in relation to goods of that class or description as if—

(a) references to selling or to a sale included references to—

(i) bailing or (in Scotland) hiring under a hire-purchase agreement, or

(ii) bailing or (in Scotland) hiring under a hire agreement, or

(iii) an agreement to sell under a conditional sale agreement; and

(b) the reference to a sale under a credit-sale agreement were a reference

(i) to a bailment, or a hiring under a hire-purchase agreement, or

(ii) to an agreement to sell under a conditional sale agreement.

Provided that subsections (1) and (2) above shall not apply—

(a) in a case of bailment or hiring under a hire agreement, where the bailment or hiring is incidental to an agreement under which payments are to be made in the form of rent issuing out of land ;

(b) in a case of possession for the purpose of bailment or hiring under a hire agreement, where possession is for the purpose of a bailment or hiring which is incidental to an agreement under which payments are to be made in the form of rent issuing out of land ;

(c) in any case of bailment or hire under a hire agreement, where the bailment or hiring was lawful at the time when it began.”