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History of hire purchase act 1872 in india

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Answered by Aditya72779
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This Act may be called the Hire-purchase Act, 1972.

(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. 1

(3) It shall come into force on such date 2 as the Central Govern­ment may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) “contract of guarantee”, in relation to any hire-purchase agreement, means a contract whereby a person (in this Act re­ferred to as the surety) guarantees the performance of all or any of the hirer’s obligations under the hire-purchase agreement;

(b) “hire” means the sum payable periodically by the hirer under a hire-purchase agreement;

(c) “hire-purchase agreement” means an agreement under which goods are let on hire and under which the hirer has an option to purchase them in accordance with the terms of the agreement and includes an agreement under which—

(i) possession of goods is delivered by the owner thereof to a person on condition that such person pays the agreed amount in periodical instalments, and

(ii) the property in the goods is to pass to such person on the payment of the last of such instalments, and

(iii) such person has a right to terminate the agreement at any time before the property so passes;

(d) “hire-purchase price” means the total sum payable by the hirer under hire-purchase agreement in order to complete the purchase of, or the acquisition of property in, the goods to which the agreement relates; and includes any sum so payable by the hirer under the hire-purchase agreement by way of a deposit or other ini­tial payment, or credited or to be credited to him under such 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 payment of money or by transfer or delivery of goods or by any other means; but does not include any sum payable as a penalty or as compensation or dam­ages for a breach of the agreement;

(e) “hirer” means the person who obtains or has obtained posses­sion of goods from an owner under a hire-purchase agreement, and includes a person to whom the hirer’s rights or liabilities under the agreement have passed by assignment or by operation of law;

(f) “owner” means the person who lets or has let, delivers or has delivered possession of goods, to a hirer under a hire-purchase agreement and includes a person to whom the owner’s property in the goods or any of the owner’s rights or liabilities under the agreement has passed by assignment or by operation of law;

Answered by FuzzieGirl
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Answer:

Hire Purchase Act 1972

According to Section 2(c) of the Hire Purchase Act 1972,

" Hire Purchase Agreement means an agreement under which goods are let on hire and under which the higher has an option to purchase them in accordance with the terms of the agreement and includes and agreement under which

(i) possession of goods is delivered by the owner there of to a person and condition that such person pays the agreed amount in periodical installments,

and

(ii) the property in the goods is to pass to such person on the payment of the last of such installments,

and

(iii) search person has a right to terminate the agreement at any time before the property to passes. "

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