The Elements of a Hire
Purchase
This Act just applies
to all hire-purchase agreements relating to products determined in
the First Schedule of the said Act. These hire-purchase agreements
relating to other merchandise are administered by precedent-based
law.
Before the
agreement
- A hire purchase
agreement must incorporate the relevant
information;
- Indicate the ideal
opportunity for the payment of each of the
installments.
- Indicate the address
wherein the merchandise under the hire purchase agreement is
located.
- Indicate the amount for
each of the installments and the individual whom and the place at
which the payments of these installments shall be
paid.
- Contains the depiction
of the products that will be sufficiently adequate to recognize
them.
During the
agreement
- In any of the hire
purchase agreements there will always be a dealer and usually a
vender, by whom or on whose behalf the negotiations will lead in
making of the hire purchase agreement with the finance company that
was carried out.
- The finance company may
also require the forthcoming hirer to outfit a guarantor to
guarantee the performance of the imminent hirer under the hire
purchase agreement.
- The hirer can also
agree to pay beyond what 10% while the balance can be paid in
installments under the hire purchase
facility.
- All the parties that
are included will then be required to sign and go into a hire
purchase agreement.
After the
agreement
The hirer should take
note that certain conditions should be met before the agree to the
assignment of the right, intrigue, and title of the hirer can be
granted under the hire purchase agreement and they
incorporate;
- All the default payment
under the hire purchase facility has already been
settled.
- The hirer and the
assignee should pay any of the reasonable costs that were brought
about by the finance company.
- The hirer and the
assignee will also have to execute and convey to the finance
company as an assignment in a structure that has been approved by
the finance company whereby it won't affect the proceeding with
personal liability of that particular hirer regarding the assignee
that agrees with the finance company who will be personally liable
to pay for the installments that have remained unpaid and to also
proceed as well as watch all of the stipulations and states of the
hire purchase agreement during the remainder of the term thereof
and whereby the assignee reimburses the hirer regarding those
liabilities.